Bonjour from Paris!

So i've decided to turn my final photo assignment into a real blog to write about all my traveling i'll be doing in the next 10 days. Our eurotrip began yesterday when we became homeless...well kicked out of our dorm due to the influx of new session B students. We decided at the last minute to stay in a hotel near Kings Crossing and our train to Paris. The room was not what we are used to but had the ammenities. After acclimating ourselves with the room we went to the Deadmau5 concert in Victoria Park which to our surprise was not in Victoria, London. The concert was unreal with thousands of people stretching throughout the entire park. Cider bottles, beer cans and cups covered the ground we walked on for the 5 hours we we were at the concert. It was our first deadmau5 concert and definitely worth the £40 we spent on tickets. We woke up this morning to get our train to Paris at 8:26 am and almost missed the train due to long lines in customs...we had no idea taking a train in the UK was similar to flying somewhere with security and customs. Now officially in Paris we have found our hostel, the plug inn hostel, located in a cute neighborhood near stores and food markets. People are literally everywhere...just wish I could understand them! Now we are off to explore the area and figure our plans for the next 3 days. Maybe by the end of the 3 days we can actually learn to take the metro and read a french map!

photos

Woman in green sweater

Poncho woman

Female smoker

Female Intern

Two female students

Woman in Kensington Gardens

fashion trends in London-anything but ordinary

My final project stems off the idea of “anything but ordinary” in London and studying abroad. I felt the need to depict images from London, which I truly believe are out of the ordinary and differ from the norm in the States. Throughout the 3 weeks I have been in London the fashion really intrigued me as well as the large presence of cigarette smoking among both men and women.


My inspiration for my images comes from two artists the first being Rineke Dijkstra. She is a photographer known for photographing men and women on simple backgrounds showing slight emotion. Her subjects are typically shown standing facing the camera; photographs are simple yet they are powerful.

A second photographer who inspired my photos is Lise Sarfati whose images we had seen at an exhibit at the V&A. Sarfati also photographed adolescents but in their natural environments. The background in her landscape photographs helps tell the story behind each individual. Sarfati’s subjects, however, do not face the camera or look straight at the camera lens.








I shot my subjects in portrait style with apertures ranging from 8 to 16. My shutter speed stayed constant at 1/60. Subjects in all of my photographs are standing still, looking at the camera and positioned in the middle of the composition. The images included in this blog exhibit a glance at fashion in London throughout my travels these past few weeks.