Louis Daguerre

 Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, who was well known for his invention of the Daguerreotype process of photography. He created this process and used it to capture moments in life. The Daguerreotype process of photography was a one-of-a-kind image on a highly polished, silver plated sheet of copper. After this creation, Louis Daguerre was considered the father of photography by many.

Robert Capa

 

Robert Capa

Robert Capa was a Hungarian/American war photographer in the 1930s. He was also a photojournalist, as well as the companion and professional photography partner of another photographer called Gerda Taro. His photography was based on the moments he had captured with his camera in the war. Many of his images included grim subjects, and the reality of war itself. He focused on bringing out everything a war photograph had to say, and he believed that "If your pictures aren't good enough, then you aren't close enough." Unfortunately, he was killed during an assignment on the French Indochina War by a land mine. His death brought to light how dangerous his war photography job really was. Robert Capa always risked his life when capturing the moments in war.

Shigeru Onishi

Shigeru Onishi - The Possibility Of Existence

Shigeru Onishi created a series of images that focus on time andspace. He ignored all rules of the darkroom and "painted"photographic emulsion onto the photo paper with a paint brush, making the state of the images development deliberately obscure. Onishi often used unusual printing methods like this to create abstract images. His work was believed to be seen as an "act" and an expression, rather than a document of work. Shortly after creaing this series of immages, Onishi decided to move on to abstract ink painting. You can see how some of his work interlinks with ink painting.

Mandy Barker

Mandy Barker

Mandy Barker is a British Photography, who is known for working with marine plastic debris. She has worked alongside scientists to bring more awareness to the large amount of plastic that is floating around in our oceans today.

The image to the left here is a photo out of her series called "Soup". The images in this series all show the numerous number of plastics that she and other scientists found in our oceans. The layout of all of these plastics can almost be compared to what looks like an image out of space, due to the black background, with all the many different coloured plastics within the image. 

The same can be said with this image too, although there's a larger amount of plastic in this photo, which contains all sorts of different sizes and shapes. The image here is still a part of the "Soup" series that Mandy Barker created, and all of the images in the series- like shown in these two here- show us the disturbing reality of just how much plastic we potentially have in our oceans.

In Mandy Barker's series "Soup", we can relate many of these images to the idea of " Fragmented Time ". This term meaning a moment in time, that shows everything happening in a split second. The images in this series all show this term, due to the large amounts of plastic being captured in a moment. These images show us the frightening truth of just how much plastic we could have in our oceans, since the amounts of plastic debris in these images only show the smallest effect of what human waste can do to our planet.