Making a Result

After thinking long and hard about what I wanted to start to pursue for my final piece I came up with the idea of stalking someone. This idea would require me to follow someone for a day and take pictures of them preferably without them knowing. Obviously this would prove very difficult so I decided to contrive my images and use someone a bit closer to home. I approached my grandad and asked him if he would mind me taking some pictures of him and he agreed to me doing this. Through my images I want to capture his day but not so it shows his face at all, so it looks as though I am completely in the background and he doesn't know I'm there. I briefed my grandad on this idea and he agreed to let me follow him at work and at home, I am very excited about this task as I am hoping i can develop it into perhaps an installation for my final piece. I got this idea from various styles of photography and in particular Yokomizo and also from the experimenting of street photography from Bruce Gilden. I like the way Bruce Gilden took pictures of people unprepared and this was the outlook I wanted to in my pictures. These pictures in particular by Bruce Gilden are very intimate and they tell the story of different people's lives. I want my pictures to be like this to some extent as I want them to be quite intimate and as though I know everything about this man's life and I want the viewer to get this same impression too.










Along with this I also had a look at photographer Darryn Lyons. Lyons is a paparazzo or a member of the paparazzi, his work has taken him around the world and has linked him with many famous celebrities such as David Beckham. The idea of paparazzi links well into my project as I am intending on following my Grandad for the day and this is what paparazzi do all day long. I intend to expand on this idea in my installation. Here are some of Darryn Lyons most recent paparazzi pictures.