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These images were taken by Larry Sultan for his work 'Pictures from Home

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These images were taken by Larry Sultan for his work 'Pictures from Home

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My first set of images related to Home. 

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My first set of images related to Home. 

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These images were taken by Corinne Day from her project 'Diary'

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These images were taken by Corinne Day from her project 'Diary'

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My second set of pictures of my home and what home is to me:

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My second set of pictures of my home and what home is to me:

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I have decided to change my other home location to my grandma's house as it's easier to get to and it's a more personal project to me

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Photographs I took at my Grandma and Granddad's home:

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Photographs I took at my Grandma and Granddad's home:

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The location I chose was a small town called Birtley where I live. I chose this location because I grew up here and it's somewhere where I know very well. Birtley is a home to a lot of people, especially my family & some of my friends. This location means a lot to me as I have so many memories here and I know I won't be living here forever. I wanted to portray the images both negatively and positively as I believe Birtley is a place where there is a good balance of each. I have had some of the best times of my life, and some of the worst. I will be showing the photographs impersonally as I want it to be more about the place than the people.

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What I really like about my first set of images is the fact there is a lot going on in all images, especially the ones with lots of people in them. They all tell different stories

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I like this image however the quality of it suffers due to it's original lighting. The original image is very dark, making it quite grainy and pix-elated when i edited it more brighter.

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The visual story I will depict with these images is going to be negative, I will show this by editting my photographs black and white and messing around with the levels, aswell as enhance the brightness and contrast. It's also going to be personal to me as it will include my friends and the people we now hang around with. The story is about the people in the photographs rather than the location itself. The story is going to be about my friends who are female, and how the people and men we have met in our lives have changed it for the worst. We met these boys and our lives changed. Their relationships with eachother as a big group are really intense and there's a lot of anger and hurt and resentment in the group. At one point they were all in happy relationships, then one after the other they deteriorated. There's been a lot of fights, dark times for all of them. They each have their own battles and they come together and simply party at my friends house. It's getting a bit too much for my friend Hannah and I think if you look closely in the images there is a lot of raw emotion in everyones faces. These images are already quite dark and shadowy, giving the images quite a negative vibe.

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Photographs I took of my friend Hannah's home.

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Photographs I took of my friend Hannah's home.

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Hannah has just recently moved into her own flat with her (now ex) boyfriend. She has also just started University and started making lots of new friends and is experiencing a new completely different lifestyle.

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Whilst I edited this image, I remembered the clouds and how amazing they looked in Hagans photographs. In my photograph (pictured above) of Gateshead, I used Saturation and Hues to enforce the green-ness of the grass as well as the blueness of the sky. If I were to take this again and improve it, I would go further out to new buildings and explore them. I could go to a street with shops and cars to get that angle that Hagan got.

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I really like this image as it really reminds me of the photograph with the close up of the little boy (pictured above). It's close up and out of focus, but it's still obviously visible that it's a person. I like this sort of image as it's not your bogstandard portrait, it has a bit of an edge. I used Colour Balance and Levels to add more colour to the image, make it more blue based to re-inforce the blue wall Hagan captured in his image next to the little boy.

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I took this photo looking down to the bottom floor of the college from the top floor. This meant I got the same angle Hagan did when he captured the image of the people of Ethiopa in their time of prayer. In my image it's an empty seating area of the college. If I were to improve this image, I should pick the timing a bit better, for example I could re-take the image at lunchtime when the seating area is busy and full of people, then it would look more like Hagan's photograph and show more of a community 'unison' atmosphere. I enhanced the saturation on this image and made it more sharp since it was quite blurred. I struggle with this type of angle because I'm really frightened of heights.

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I took this image initially remembering the photograph I'd seen with the inspiring quote. I thought it was quite an interesting comparison. In this image I edited the Levels, making the original white walls more crisp and bright, and then using Colour Balance to add the purple-blue just to make the image more colourful. If I were to improve this image, I would choose a different destination with a different sign giving a completely different message, hopefully similar to the one Hagan captured in Ethiopia. Something a bit more inspiring (lol).

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I edited these images using Photoshop, I used the 'Saturation', 'Vibrance', 'Colour Balance', 'Brightness and Contrast' adjustments to enhance these images. I focused on the bright vivid colours that Freddy captured from his time in Ethiopia.

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Techniques I can take from Freddy Hagan and these photographs.

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Techniques I can take from Freddy Hagan and these photographs.

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Observe and take photographs 'invisibly', catch people doing what they do naturally.
Saturate the image, enhance vibrant colours.
Take pictures of what you see, whether it's beautiful or not.

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These photographs are uneditted.

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Photographs taken around Gateshead College in the style of Freddy Hagan.

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Photographs taken around Gateshead College in the style of Freddy Hagan.

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I like this image, however I feel it could be improved if I was to retake it by getting rid of the over exposure in the top left, and maybe placing the plants in the centre, abiding the rule of three.

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I love this image, I find the textures of the rain driplets on the window glass contrasts well to the shadow of houses in the distance off the reflection on the glass. It's a very interesting perspective of an image. I'm proud of this one.

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These images hold sights I would never normally see. Home for these people is a complete different world to my home. Freddy Hagan, the photographer, has captured these people at their most natural, rawest habitat. The whole culture and scenery is different to where I live, the vibrancy of all the materials, clothes, paint on  the walls. The hues and greenery of some of the places outdoors is beautiful, and I find all the colours gorgeous.  In some of the images that show the suffering these people face are brutally true, and a real shock to observe. In the image of the homeless person laying on the floor, only a simple blanket covers him, he looks lifeless, dead even. The photograph of the little boy with fly's infested in the crevice of his mouth and nose, and even in the corners of his eyes. It's awful. It's one thing to see images like this all through my life, but to really sit and look at them closely, really SEEING the photographs for what they are, noticing the smallest details is to really understand that this is real, and it is happening. That in itself, is daunting enough. Home for these people is being united around each other, but the photographer also catches most people in their own little world. I really admire this technique Hagan uses, even if it means some of the images are out of focus, he captures people in their own little moment.  The subjects of the images never really invite you in, so I do feel like the observer of the images, except for the one of the boys in the school where they are looking into the camera. The personalities of the subjects are really enhanced in these images, some people looking happy, and some looking extremely unhappy. Hagan seems to be sort of an invisible photographer, he goes by quite unnoticed, capturing people in the reality of their motions. These photographs show the truth of these peoples situations, the one of the man on the floor with an amputated leg next to his prosthetic leg, surrounded by cluttered litter, it's the truth. That's the sights you would see if you were to explore this area.

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NGO´s has helped Ethiopian women to be able to talk care of their childrens children. Their parents has died of AIDS.

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Coptic Christian praise in the morning next to a rock-hewn church in Lalibela

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in the countryside next to the town Lalibela

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Woman in the hospital in Gode town in Ogaden, the Somali region in Ethiopia

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Begger in front of a church in Addis Ababa

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Woman in the hospital in Gode town in Ogaden, the Somali region in Ethiopia

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Child suffering from malnutrition in the countryside, near the city Lalibela.

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The Danish Imam Abdul Wahid Pedersen in Gode, a town i the Somali-Region in Ethiopia

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Coptic Christians at church Christmas Eve January 7.

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Friday prayer at the market in Addis Ababa.

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Girl learning the Qur'an in Gode town in Ogaden, the Somali region in Ethiopia.

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Homeless in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Boys at school in Gode town in Ogaden, the Somali region in Ethiopia

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Boy in Qur'an shcol.

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Gode town in Ogaden, the Somali region in Ethiopia.

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Gode town in Ogaden, the Somali region in Ethiopia

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The Danish Imam, Abdul Wahid Pedersen, pray in the Mosque in Gode. Ogaden, the Somali region in Ethiopia

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Addis Ababa.

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'A photographic travel Essay in tree chapters' by Freddy  Hagen. Location ETHIOPIA, Ogaden.

On travel with Danish Muslim Aid, a help organization based in Copenhagen. Danish Muslims has collected finance to build a well in the Somali-district in Ethiopia. The Somali-district shares borders with Somalia. 99% of the population is Ethnic Somalis. They suffer hard because of the drought. 98 % of the populations are Muslim.

The conditions in the Somali-Region are alarming. Drought four years in a row makes it almost impossible for their Nomadic existence. The ongoing fight between the separatist organization Ogaden National Liberation Front [ONLF] and the Ethiopian government hit almost every civilian in the region. In 2008 Human Rights Watch published a document that
claimed crimes committed against Humanity on the civilian population. It also claimed that ONLF committed similar crimes.

Ngo’s and journalists are banned from working in the region.

Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia. It's a big city of contrasts. Religion and poverty is present everywhere. I stayed there for fourteen days, walking in the streets….

Lalibela

The town Lalibela is well known for its rock-hewn churches. Religion and poverty is present everywhere believers are praying be the churches.

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All these images are taken from here.