Infulential Photographers.

I initially thought picking 5 photographs that had influenced me would be a simple process, but no. I have been racking my brain and searching through books I like websites I like (websites of photographers I like.) I really cannot pick any one image that has particularly influenced me. I seem to find myself thinking about specific photographers that have influenced me, not single images. I tend to find myself being influenced by their work as a whole more than 'that one image.'

When I first decided I 'liked' photography and I wanted to inflict my images on the world I sadly wasn't in any photography education so I did what most lazy people do. I bashed my computer on and learnt what I could from the masses of the ol' internet. After a little search I found myself on websites such as 'Flickr' and 'Deviant Art.' I came across a user who seemed incredibly more popular then the great majority online herds, called Lara Jade. She's a student studying in UCE in Birmingham. I don't like all of her work, I probably dislike more of it than I do like it but I do like her style and some specific images of her's really influenced my early photographs.

Here are a few examples:

I have searched on her website and read and article about her in 'Practical Photography' magazine but there isn't much written about her work. She does not really let people know what she means with her images more than the title, nor does she divulge into why she took them. You're left to you're own imagination. Perhaps in some cases its a good thing, others not so.

Here are a few of my early photographs I took in response to her (and other amateur work I had seen online):