Themes for Photography Portfolio

City & Guilds

People and Portraits

Formal Portraits

• Studio setting• Follows

conventions of portraiture

• Use of standard lighting

Daguerre -

• Can include self portraits• Issues of identity arise

Robert Mapplethorpe

Martin Schoeller

Informal Portraits

• Non studio setting• Not following

conventions of portraiture

• Not always ‘perfect’ images

Bill Brandt - Portrait of Francis Bacon

Edward Steichen’s

Alex Majoli

Environmental Portraits

• Seeks to categorise by job type and sometimes person type, including class, gender etc

Hill and Adamson

August SanderRobert CapaPaul Strand

Built Environment

Andres Gursky

Paul Strand

Ansel Adams

Still Life

Immogen Cunningham

Edward weston

William Eggleston

Irving Penn

Nature

•Conventional landscapes following art conventions

•Rule of thirds•vanishing Point

Gustav le Gray

Edward Steiglitz

Martine Frank

Ansel Adams

Ernst Haast

Reportage

Saiful Huq Omi

The Disowned and Denied

For decades, the xenophobic, Burmese military junta has refused to recognize the Rohingya as a distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western Burma. Internationally, their story is under reported. The Rohingya are probably the most voiceless and stateless refugee community in the world

Jürgen Bodamer

Galways fishing

By 1970 only two boats remained, whereas eye witnesses report that they have seen 20 boats in the harbour of Inis Mór, the biggest of the three Árainn Islands and 35 boats sailing out of Conamara