I took this photograph at Statford at war of a soldier with a camera, there was soldiers that took photographs during the war.

I picked this photograph to analyse I think it could be just off the rules of third because his foot is slightly off from the edge, it makes me feel did war photographers were they given weapons or just given pistols, they have to keep safe themselves just like the rest of the men, at the time of the war.

What is happening in this photograph is a gentle documenting the war through the eye of a camera to show the world or for himself the terror that was during world war 2, I also noticed he doesn’t have a weapon on him, I took this photograph in landscape so I only focused on him and not what was happening around at the time I took it.

I made sure he was in focus and not the background, you can still kind of see what is happening in the background with bit of the tank, the setting I did for this photograph was at a re-enactment I went to called ‘Stanford at war’ and this was on the battle field. They tried to do it realistic but kind of changed it to let the germans win. I would say it was historic because of what it is.

The main story and the clues with this photograph is the camera, we don’t see it much of the people that took the photograph or those that tell the story or who did we only mainly see the bad of the war but not those that put there life on the line to document it.

My main interest for this is Roger Fenton that was a war photographer at the time who took photographs also he was in the army during the Crimean war and his famous photograph called ‘valley and the shadow of death’ this is the photograph that got me interested in war photography.

Referencing:

Roger fenton https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/terrible-beauty

Carol ann duffy http://national5english.wixsite.com/carol-ann-duffy/war-photographer

David Douglas Duncan https://www.usabreakingnews.net/tag/leica-s-magazine/

I researched these photographers during this blog on the internet by typing in war photography in google and these names came up..

All About Me.

I have studied photography for 2 years doing a national diploma for 2 years, but to get me to that I did bit in college doing a first diploma in art and design, I am in to all kind of genre of photography from gigs, landscape, wildlife, aviation to name a few I will add a couple of examples a little further down.

I chose to do a BA hons in photography at Lincoln, because of the facilities are the best I have seen, and the fact I have always had a thing about Lincoln.

This was one of the first lot of photographs I have taken for a touring show called Steve steinmans vampires rock, whilst at college I managed to get a photo pass to take photographs for him, and this is one of those. there was a guy in the pit also taking photographs called ‘Henry Murphy’ that helped me get the settings and iso right on my camera for this one because of it being my first official time.

I then went to Birmingham pride where I took this photograph of ms dynamite, I didn’t know at the time that she was looking towards the camera, so I was happy with the outcome of this image. I wasn’t in the pit for this photograph I took it from the other side as someone at the show so I was a distance but still happy.

I later after college got asked to take photographs of a friends wedding this is one of my favourite of the set of photographs I took, I stumbled across taking wedding photographs by accident I never wanted to get in to it. This was taking from the set of photographs from the second wedding I photograph so I was still learning as I went along.

I also love wildlife and again this is one of the first photographs I took at Cardiff castle, the fact I managed to get the texture of the feathers and the detailing shocked me.

I am a huge iron maiden so to be able to see there aircraft ‘ed force one’ at East Midlands airport whilst they played at download on the Sunday made my year to say the least.

I managed to capture this image whilst away at Blackpool with the missus and really happy and get a lot of complements from this one image itself, I can’t believe I managed to capture the beauty of the sun set.

after finishing university I wasn’t to find a job in photography, its always been a dream to manage to get a job in what I love doing, so that is my goal.

I took these this year the other weekend at a ww2 event at Newstead abbey, the one of the German soldier I did ask him if I could photograph him and he said I could, He also was saying about the history of the German soldiers which I wish I could of recorded but didn’t think at the time.

The one of the soldier walking was one he didn’t pose or know about, really happy with the set of photographs I took this weekend.

these photographs can be found on my facebook photograph page which is: Dawn Barker Photograph, I also have a instagram account .

I love going to places with history to it and old buildings.