James Harold inspiration // Street

I like the photography work done by Harold as I feel it captures quite a variation of life in and around London. This is being done by him because Harold has images ranging from tourists, chess players, eccentric street sellers, and a general view on life around the English capital city. His work can be found here.

I like these two images taken by Harold because they capture the atmosphere that is usually thought about when people mention 'London'. This is to do with London being the capital city of England and has the most historical features of an individual city in the United Kingdom. This then means that people from all around come to take pictures of these features so they can say to people that they know that they've been there, and then they will have their own images of these things. But since these historical features are so important and pretty to look at, people from England and even London take pictures of these things so they can have their own images of these things.
The image on the right has someone taking a picture of something, but it makes the viewer want to know what they are taking a picture of.

 These are the pictures that I took with Harold's image on the top right in mind for inspiration. This is because they are all taking pictures of things in Trafalgar Square, but you don't know what of and without the context of the image you wouldn't know where it has been taken. By doing this, it makes the viewer want to know what exactly they were taking a picture of - and especially in the image on the right it makes the viewer wonder why there's a crowd of people taking pictures of this one thing and what it is. I kept these images in colour instead of converting them to black and white like Harold to keep the bright colours of the image there, also as there is so much colour in these images I feel as if I removed it, it would have removed the life out of the image.

Similarly with these images, I took inspiration from Harold's image on the top left of this blog post. The image shows a female taking an image, I took inspiration from that by having the people that were taking the pictures in the image there with the image in clear view as part of my picture, but I also included in the left side what they were taking the picture of. This is different to what Harold has done as he had it so that you could only see what they were taking the picture of through that person's camera screen, but I like that I have done this as I feel as if it adds another perspective to the image as you can see their view of their family member and another view too. I feel as if the colour in these images is significant as it is a major part of what's going on and the context of the image, so therefore I haven't removed it and put the images into black and white.