Italy

Last week from the 25th - 28th February the photography department visited Bergamo, Italy. I've never particularly crazed about going to Italy like most people, although after staying in Bergamo I'd like to stay in Sicily as this is where most tourists go due to how beautiful it is. It was amazing to actually be in Italy and walking around on the cobble stone paths and down tall narrow streets as it's usually seen only in films.
On the second day we visited a Museum in Milan, we also got given the chance to climb the Dumo di Milano which is Milan's Cathedral Church one the Milan's main tourist attractions. The Cathedral is the fifth largest in the world!
Below are a few photo's around Bergamo and Milan.

Milan trainstation, Milan 

Cityscape, Bergamo 

Waiters, Milan 

Dumo Di Milano, Milan 

Lady and dog, Bergamo 

Cityscape, Milan 

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan 

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan 

For more photo's http://www.flickr.com/photos/62313872@N05/

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