Paul Graham is an English fine-art and documentary photographer who studied at the University of Bristol. His work captures surroundings of places which relates to my theme of my pictures also.
There’s no place like home!
Scunthorpe is very well known for its Steel industry which first came about in my hometown in the 1860’s. It had three main plants John Lysaights, Redbourne, Appleby and Froddingham which was the biggest of the works, these were situated around the town and provided jobs for thousands of people. But unfortunately over the years, two of the plants shutdown and now there’s only one left standing which recently was put up for sale and hundreds of people were made redundant. Many generations of my family have worked on the Steel Works owned by TATA Steel, my grandfather been a key member of the community. He left school at 15 in 1958 and got an apprenticeship and worked there for 23years, which involved been a manager at two Rod Mills and Billet Mill with 126 men and 12 supervisors.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr is a documentary photographer who specifically focuses on modern life, social classes and communities in and around England. I particularly like Parr’s candid street photography due to the fact that it captures the natural side of people in day to day life. One of his projects focuses on Brighton beach in the 80s, called ‘The Last Resort.’ I think that this is a prime example of home photography in it’s natural surroundings. After studying Parr’s work I thought long and hard how I could show his influence in my work but after taking my photos I found other photographers who had more influences on my work.
Below is a sample of images from his project ‘The Last Resort’
