Throughout the work I used a Nikon D80 SLR, with a 24 - 70mm telephoto lens, as I needed to be able to respond quickly as opportunities presented themselves.
Below is the image of the wall that is starting to fall down at the start of Lulworth Road. Once again, this works from a compositional point of view, because the image is split broadly into 3 sections, the background, the wall and the pavement. This type of image in essence may not be valuable standing alone, but works in the context of the story being told.
The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith
American photographer, Eugene Smith covered the 1950's general election for Life magazine, and produced some of the most powerful post war decade images ever seen, depicting the mining valleys of South Wales during Attlee's radical Labour government reign. Due to the opposition of the magazine to the government, the images were never seen publicly for decades. They depict a raw quality and dereliction. This type of image capture is seen in other works of Smiths, such as his views of New York. He often uses windows or framing, or a means of viewing the subject through something else which creates the impression that you are being allowed to see something that is hidden, and is a clever composition technique to capture the viewers eye.
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