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05/28/2006 02:49:46 AM · #51
Originally posted by JRalston:

Originally posted by jmsetzler:

..... to make the viewer ask and try to understand 'why' at the same time.



Definitely made me ask 'why'...LOL I guess it worked :)


Oh yeah, it makes me ask "why?" on many levels.
05/28/2006 02:56:03 AM · #52
When I look at this photo I see post office queues on pension day, where the smell of imperial mint fills the air. I see old Alf leaning over the garden fence to proudly tell me about his cabbages that he is growing. I see Blackpool tack on sideboards. I can hear the sound of my grandad as he scoots around in the kitchen whilst he prepares a cup of tea, waiting for the screech of the kettle. I see loneliness, isolation and alienation that many eldery people in Britain endure nowadays, thanks to the creation and promotion of the nuclear family. To me this photograph portrays almost every pensioner in Britain today.

I'm guessing it's definitely a Brit thing
05/28/2006 03:44:02 AM · #53
right i'm a brit and a working class one at that, but i still don't get it??? all the pictures were not great i thought (except the seagull one i liked that one :) ) but they just smacked of being done by somebody outside the uk about us brits so could sombody explain why it is good cos i think it sucks
05/28/2006 04:31:05 AM · #54
Originally posted by richard42:

right i'm a brit and a working class one at that, but i still don't get it??? all the pictures were not great i thought (except the seagull one i liked that one :) ) but they just smacked of being done by somebody outside the uk about us brits so could sombody explain why it is good cos i think it sucks


What would your take have been if you would have taken part?

The title of the competition was "The best of British", and I think most of the photographs captured that "typical" idea of what the expected "British" identity or notion is. The corner shop run by an ethnic minority, old men obsessing about the war, strolls along a grey and murky Blackpool promonade all reek of typical Britishness to me. If the photographs would have been done by somebody outside the UK you can guarantee they would have instead contained a pinky lifting tea drinker, top hat wearing, stiff upper lipped pillock outside his country mansion. Or maybe a punk wrapped up in the union jack sticking 2 fingers up.

What is being British all about? I certainly don't regard myself as British. I don't like the idea of Britain being made up of only one of the countries identities, that being English. There seems to be a contant clash of ideas when it comes to Britishness. Those who celebrate modern day diversity and multiculturalism and then those who look back to empire, sing along to night of the proms whilst waving the butchers apron in the air. Britain tis a funny place to live ;)

Photography wise some of the photographs I quite liked, others were just shite. Its Brit art isn't it? All that rubbish like Tracey Emin that wins prizes.

Message edited by author 2006-05-28 04:32:25.
05/28/2006 04:57:53 AM · #55
I refer you all to This Thread and suggest that it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. The judges determined their winner on their own basis, and the photo, no matter what it looks like to any of us, is deserving of the win, as it .. well.. won.

None of us can define what is art, nor are any of us qualified to do so.
05/28/2006 04:58:33 AM · #56
If that's worth a 1000 pounds cash price, I'd better stop taking pictures.
05/28/2006 05:04:15 AM · #57
yes you are quite right :)
i would have liked to see a vickeyu pollard picture with the five prams :)
05/28/2006 05:19:25 AM · #58
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

Originally posted by press release:


"I found it a lot harder to judge than last year, we had a lot of very clichéd images entered this time, but we needed to select pictures that told a deeper story; all the shortlisted ones did that. The winning image reminds me of my auntie or nan. It provokes and tells a story in such a subtle way. I liked the story behind the image."



Lucky for the photographer that judge likes his/her auntie. :P
05/28/2006 05:53:44 AM · #59
Why not look at the schweppes portrait compitition from last year. Biggest lot of C**P I've ever seen
05/28/2006 06:20:47 AM · #60
A fine example of the viewer seeing what they want inthe image rather than what is there ... but then again, I think that of most of what is held high as fine art.



David
05/28/2006 08:08:16 AM · #61
I stand corrected. I have revised my previous post in this thread, it was pretty sarcastic. Some of our harsh remarks might not be very considerate of a young photography student who has just won a handsome prize. However, I'm still not getting much from the photo except that I see no technical flaws. I note that the competition was for Brits and about Brits so maybe the photographers were not trying to speak to an audience any wider than that. I am an American. The shot is displayed as a winner without it's title, but even after getting the title from the press release, I am no better off to understand what the photographer is trying to say, or why the judges rated it so high. I know a little of Surrealism and Dadaism, have heard of Man Ray, but know nothing of any of the judges.

I will try to keep an open mind to more from our British users, in layman's terms if possible, please. However, the bottom line is that the entering photographer has accomplished at least part of what she intended - she won the competition - so Congratulations to Clemency, you are doing something right. Good Luck in all your photographic endeavors, and don't be detered because of us here at dpc.

Message edited by author 2006-05-28 08:14:33.
05/31/2006 06:20:47 AM · #62
IMO there must have been only a handfull of photographers participating in this challenge. The rules stated that you have to be studying photographics.
So few British that are learning photograhic use Fujifilm and fujipaper anymore :-)

05/31/2006 06:52:47 AM · #63
Wish i'd have entered.
05/31/2006 08:06:26 AM · #64
Originally posted by alfresco:

mmmmkay

maybe it's because I'm not British.

From the PR:
"The theme for this year was 'The Best of British'. ... Clemency's amusing image entitled "Two Yorkie's, 6 Hadrian Close" caught the eye of all the judges, although the competition was close fought."

What's up with this Ben, why's this Best of British?


No idea!
05/31/2006 10:42:35 AM · #65
I'll say one thing...this horrible picture has gotten more comments than probably all of my pictures combined.

I'm going back to bed.
05/31/2006 10:46:57 AM · #66
Originally posted by specialk0783:

I'll say one thing...this horrible picture has gotten more comments than probably all of my pictures combined.

I'm going back to bed.


But at the same time, you've received more than ten times the comments you've given so there's that. :)
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