Ian MacEachern
Ian MacEachern is a social documentary photographer who was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, in 1942. Social documentary photography is the use of photography to record people in their natural conditions. I personally think that this is a sort of form of street photography as it is not posed and is in the more natural type/form of photography. In my opinion, I think that this type of photography is the one that is most like the sort of photographing I did to document my work experience because the majority of my images were of the journeys to and from work and that was basically like street photography to me, which as I previously mentioned, is how I view social documentary photography.
Ian MacEachern is one of the few photographers that I found when researching. I picked his images in particular because I felt they were more unique but still natural. The images weren't as modern as other work that I have viewed by different photographers because of the fact that they have been taken sometime in the 20th century but I think that this is what makes the images stand out more. To the side are a few images that I found most interesting. |
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Work Experience Visual Diary
The task that the class had been set over the course of our work experience was to take photographs each day to visually document our experiences. When discussing the project in class, we realised that there would be issues with taking photos in the work place due to things like confidentiality issues so we thought of ways to overcome these issues and found other things that we could photograph instead, and myself and my partner were able to come up with these ideas:
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For my work experience, I spent the two weeks working in a nursery; Triangle Day Nursery. I had to supervise, play with, feed and dress the children. The bit I enjoyed the most was playing with the kids, I had so much fun doing so and all the kids were lovely. There wasn't really much to complain about with this job, it was quite a laid back one as all I really did was play with kids, it was tiring but I still enjoyed it. The only thing that I wasn't really too happy with was that I only got one break, as fun as the job was, it was hard to work for the 4 hours of the morning consistently without some form of break until lunch.
During this experience, I learnt that work can be fun if you do what you enjoy, but there are a lot of times where you have to be serious and mature and do the tasks given without complaining. I think that working was a great experience and I would like to do more work outside school, but after the two weeks, I was looking forward to going back to school as it had worn me out completely, this showed me that I may have enjoyed it, but I am not quite ready to enter the working world just yet. |
My Favourite Image and Evaluation
I picked this image as my favourite image out of my set because I felt that this captured an important part of the journey I made everyday. I took this image when sitting on the top deck of the 472 bus, in the same seat that I sat in everyday. The subject of this image is the window that has been clouded up with a frosty, icy air, reminding me of the cold weather that I went to work in everyday which to me was a key part of work experience, it showed me that whatever the weather, you'd always have to travel to work because you had to be deeply committed to your job.
This image was taken in a way that was to seem as though it was from my point of view, looking out of the window. I took it like this because on all the previous days of work experience, I always liked to sit and look out of the window whilst listening to my music because I liked to watch and see all the types of places the bus drove past, and as it was an unfamiliar journey, that made it even
more interesting to watch.
I didn't take this image because of any inspiration I got from other photographers that I have looked at but it was inspired by an image I had captured in the past. On Christmas day, when I first got my camera, I was messing around and experimenting with taking different images and then I went over to the window. I pulled back the curtains and noticed that the window was still wet from the rain in the night, and I liked the way it looked so I took a picture of the view through the window. Since then, I have liked the idea of taking pictures through windows in the sense of a persons point of view, and so that is what gave me the idea for this image.
I don't think this image captures a particular mood or feeling, but I think that it has quite a cold, frosty atmospheric feel to it. Looking at it makes me think of those cold winter mornings that come and go every year, where the air feels fresher because of the cold, and the sun has just risen. It's like what you would sort of expect to see on your morning journey in the winter.
Overall I think that this image says that work is full of different journeys and routines that you go through all the time, and that the things you expect can still be some of the best parts of your working day as I personally enjoyed my journeys to work in the mornings. I believe that a good view in the morning could start off you're day and make it better than it could have been.
This image was taken in a way that was to seem as though it was from my point of view, looking out of the window. I took it like this because on all the previous days of work experience, I always liked to sit and look out of the window whilst listening to my music because I liked to watch and see all the types of places the bus drove past, and as it was an unfamiliar journey, that made it even
more interesting to watch.
I didn't take this image because of any inspiration I got from other photographers that I have looked at but it was inspired by an image I had captured in the past. On Christmas day, when I first got my camera, I was messing around and experimenting with taking different images and then I went over to the window. I pulled back the curtains and noticed that the window was still wet from the rain in the night, and I liked the way it looked so I took a picture of the view through the window. Since then, I have liked the idea of taking pictures through windows in the sense of a persons point of view, and so that is what gave me the idea for this image.
I don't think this image captures a particular mood or feeling, but I think that it has quite a cold, frosty atmospheric feel to it. Looking at it makes me think of those cold winter mornings that come and go every year, where the air feels fresher because of the cold, and the sun has just risen. It's like what you would sort of expect to see on your morning journey in the winter.
Overall I think that this image says that work is full of different journeys and routines that you go through all the time, and that the things you expect can still be some of the best parts of your working day as I personally enjoyed my journeys to work in the mornings. I believe that a good view in the morning could start off you're day and make it better than it could have been.