Assignement #2 - Environmental Portraits - Village des Valeurs

Not to make a critique about the diversity of people who shop there, that would be boring

Assignement #2 - Environmental Portraits - Recherche

Contemporary Examples

Here are some links to the website photodonut that i like, they are more on the photo essay side, but still are very viable ideas

http://www.photodonuts.com/michael-casker

http://www.photodonuts.com/emily-shur

http://www.photodonuts.com/olivier-laude

And this one is my favorite!

http://www.photodonuts.com/hunter-freeman

An other one of my favories, on its way to become a classic

http://ryanmcginley.com/photographs

Clasics Examples

August Sanders
http://photography-now.net/august_sander/portfolio1.html
The background is kept to a minimum, just to give enough information but does not overpower the actual portrait and the person

Bruce Davidson
http://photography-now.net/bruce_davidson/index.html

This is a totally other genre, where the people take a smaller part in the picture
http://photography-now.net/joel_sternfeld/portfolio1.html

Love love love this!!!
http://photography-now.net/rineke_dijkstra/portfolio1.html


ConterExamples


For unexample, this is quite ugly and looks cheap
http://www.photodonuts.com/noah-kalina

Assignement #1 - Emulation Terry Richardson - the SFW Results