Andrew has just started a project on stag and hen nights, he wants to observe the behaviour and find out what goes on. One of his most favourite projects to work on was the horseracing project. He also likes watching the horses’ race. He goes around taking pictures, and sometimes he talks to the people, but some people object to him taking their picture. He also worked with heroine addicts; these are some of the pictures he took, as you can see the pictures are really explicit.
The composition of this picture
is really good he darkens the surroundings of the picture
so your eyes are drawn to the centre of the photograph.
He also worked with a group of elderly people that swim in Hyde Park every Sunday morning. The pictures are really interesting, the images looked like sculptures in the water. You can only see down to their shoulders. I think he put a lot of thought into the composition of the pictures. When you look at the pictures the first thing your eyes are drawn to are the people. He uses the lines in the water for perspective. I don’t think the same effect would have been achieved if all the pictures had been taken with colour instead of black and white.
He likes to use humour with his work as you can see with the images below.
His main overheads are his cameras, film, film processing, fuel, rent; he uses computers a lot, and because he has a self-run business he has to do his own tax returns. He does not have an agent because they cost too much money, and also because he believes some of them are phoney.
Andrew does not really have any health and safety requirements because he works for himself. He has insurance for his stuff such as his cameras. He also has public liability insurance, this means that he is insured if a member of the public is injured, for example if they trip over one of his cables then he is covered.
All of his work is protected by copyright. So every time one of his pictures is used he gets paid. His main tool is his camera, a cannon medium format Hasselblack. He has never had a contract; the only contract he has is between him and photo library. Andrew is interested in class as an issue, and how photographs can change the appearance of people.
Martin Parr influences him, Martin Parr was born in Epsom, Surrey, UK, in 1952. When he was a boy, his budding interest in the medium of photography was encouraged by his grandfather George Parr, himself a keen amateur photographer. Since that time, Martin Parr has worked on numerous photographic projects. He has developed an international reputation for his innovative imagery, his oblique approach to social documentary, and his input to photographic culture within the UK and abroad.
In recent years, he has developed an interest in filmmaking, and has started to use his photography within different conventions, such as fashion and advertising.
These are some of his works.
He also likes works published by Magnum.
His main hobby is photography; he also likes music and football, but says that ever since he has become a photographer his life basically revolves around it. He is inspired by art; he goes around galleries looking at different artists’ work. He says that he would not recommend his job to any one unless they really loved photography. He got £500 for some pictures he took a while back, but you still have to budget. Advertising shoots earns a lot of money, around £4,000, but because he does editorial he does not get that much.
