MATT GILLESPIE | PHOTOGRAPHY: THE BECKERS PROJECT

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

THE BECKERS PROJECT

The Beckers Project is a documentary series of images put in place to bring the people on the Beckers housing estate closer together. Hackney houses a wide range of people, and like London as a whole is a very multi-cultural city. I got to meet some interesting characters whilst working on this project, people from Nigeria, Congo, Sri Lanka amongst others! I am trying to decide on wether the images work best in black & white, or colour? so i will post a few in colour so you can decide for yourselves.

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quotes to remember

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” Elliott Erwitt
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” Paul Strand quotes (American Photographer, 1890-1976)
My photographs don’t go below the surface. They don’t go below anything. They’re readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I’ve lost what’s really there…been seduced by someone else’s standard of beauty or by the sitter’s own idea of the best in him. That’s not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest. - Richard Avedon - 1980