Unit 8 Photography

This is a report into the styles of photography that I have taken and worked on recently. I really like to take documented images of of urban infrastructure and how small things in the image can represent what the artists was thinking while taking the picture. I enjoy taking pictures that document urban landscapes, fashion, and crating cover art for albums and mixtapes.  This is a documentary style image of Japanese urban infrastructure. The image is a mix of photography and graphic design as I heavily edited the image until it fit the style of the album I made it for. I liked the Japanese culture that was in the image and I duplicated the the layers so that I could stretch and morph the image to make it very psychedelic and trippy. The location was purposely chosen as the Japanese road signs and text link to the anime aesthetic the mixtape features, as I use lyrics and samples that are from anime and Japanese culture. I was inspired by the Luv is rage 2 and other Lil Uzi Vert albu...

Steve Mc curry, born in 1950 is an American photographer who is most known for documenting nature, war and also picturing portraits of people from developing countries. Showing the effects of war of natural life, As well as human life. His most famous picture 'Afghan Girl' is a portrait of a young girl with piercing green eyes taken during 1980 war time in the Afghanistan. Lot of his photos use the their location to their advantage.  Steve has been using  Nikon equipment such as the D700 and a Hasselblad Medium format camera . For his printing nowadays, he uses an Epson printer and is considered an Epson Pro. He has mentioned that his favourite  printer has been an Epson large format printer. In  1984 , Steve McCurry was commissioned by National Geographic to take photographs of refugee camps along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. When there, he was able to take many pictures  of civilians  and refugees who were fleeing from the recent conflict that ...