a couple words with Joshua Whitelaw
We got some new Josh Whitelaw photos for you!
Who: Me. Josh.
What: Half of the time it's just snapshots of my friends and stuff, and the other half it's the stuff I think about before I take.
When: Pretty much everyday if I can. I take my camera everywhere.
Where: Leicester in England at the minute. I'm hopefully moving away somewhere nice for university soon. Hopefully.
Why: Because I'm no good at anything else.
How: With point & shoots mostly. My Yashica T4 or my Contax TVSII.
Find more Whitelaw on QUAY FOREVER or on his flickr.
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Who: Me. Josh.
What: Half of the time it's just snapshots of my friends and stuff, and the other half it's the stuff I think about before I take.
When: Pretty much everyday if I can. I take my camera everywhere.
Where: Leicester in England at the minute. I'm hopefully moving away somewhere nice for university soon. Hopefully.
Why: Because I'm no good at anything else.
How: With point & shoots mostly. My Yashica T4 or my Contax TVSII.
Find more Whitelaw on QUAY FOREVER or on his flickr.
BACK HOME
posted by t reilly hodgson at
1:29 PM
7 Comments:
excellent
second photo down is amazing. josh you are an inspiration, as ever. x
i love josh whitelaw.
these are great. i love the colors.
it's all kind of boring. I feel like I've seen all these in 400 other portfolios. #2 is ok though, Jonas Bendiksen-esque maybe?
Finally. Thank you Nick. Someone from generation twitter needs to be more critical about what your peers are trying to make these days. The concern I have with these images is that they merely seem like memory shots. So what? What are you trying to say to your audience about the time you live in? Even memory shots should be a bit more critical. Using Yashica T4's isn't going to make you a great photographer. Having a vision, concept, and story to say, will though. The Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, and more recently Ryan McGinley type shots, all had/have a vision about that specific time and place they where shot. They reflected the economical, political, and social time of that era. I ask Generation Twitter, what are you trying to say?
Firstly…Generation twitter, it was bad enough being branded the MTV generation, now the twitter generation….who sits around thinking of these sweeping generalizations for our youth.
Your comment is so subjective and not in any way constructive…..memory shots….so what….well, why not?
Why is there this misconception that creative people have to be saying something all the time…that they must be pushing a political statement?
This photography is gentle, it reminds me of the small fractioned moments that disappear in a blink and we move on but Josh has managed to stop, and take the time to capture it. They are blink and you’ll miss it moments. There is a real essence of equanimity and tranquillity to these images. Yes, there is a lot of similar imagery I think circulating in the photography scene at the moment, but being able to make something your own, and not to be afraid to show your influences is a bold move.
You talk about a vision concept…someone on the brink of university doesn’t need a vision concept, it’s much braver to remove your self from a ‘formula’ that works and to experiment and push yourself away from your comfort zone. It would be creative suicide to have pigeon holed your self at the beginning of your creative career.
To finish off I’d like to say that during my fine art degree, all the people shouting the loudest were often the ones that actually had the least to say, confidence in the substance of your work is all you need. If not everyone gets it that’s there prerogative, but I don’t think the message is absent in these images, I think it’s carried softly like the literal images them selves.
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