"Call me Stella"

For the past two months we have been working towards our final major project at college. For my project I deiced to document my mother and her relationship with alcohol. Inspired by Deidre O'Callaghan I was to document things about the place as well as my mothers day-to-day life. This wasn't an easy project for me, and I found it quite hard however, these are the results. 

August Sander

August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Born 17th November 1876 Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century." April 20th 1964 he passed away in Cologne. 

At college we were given an assignment to produce three pictures in the style of Sander. At first this seemed easy, but as I went along I found it quite tricky.

 Feature’s he continually worked with is the blank expression and shallow depth of field. However when photographing it was a big step from any other project we had been given because I had to stick to certain elements, such as the depth of field, the blank expression, not to mention colour, composition and visual. Below show Sanders work and my attempt to portray his style. 

The Wise One, Shepard- 1913

Bricklayer's mate 1928

Art Dealer 1928