#305 ASSIGNMENT: VALERIE JARDIN #2
It's assignment day where our special guest, street photographer and international mentor Valerie Jardin sets a photography challenge or a way to think about your picture-making for the next week. It’s a challenge for everybody, whatever interests you have and today, we're asking you to think about humour.
A mention is made for Gabrielle Motola’s street portrait workshop, fear, confidence and mastery. Here is a link for the remaining places on the 12th June if you’re in the (or have access to be) UK.
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BY SYLVAIN
I love this assignment although It's definitely not the easiest. I never go out thinking to myself, "find the funny scenes". If I do, then I get stuck and can't produce anything. In my case, they just seem to happen, and I have to be ready for the taking.
Anyways, not knowing how many I could share, and having difficulty deciding, I'll share four (above and below).
The one with the ear pulling was all about watching the scene unfold. The kid was climbing on a statue at the foot of the Trocadero in Paris, and his mother was yelling at him. When he finally came down she grabbed his ear and pulled him away. I was actually going for a picture of the kid on the statue but never managed to find an angle. The one with the pack of dogs was luck. I noticed the pack of dogs so I got down to their level, and I snapped one the one dog made that funny head gesture as if staring at the black dog’s bottom. The Vivian Maier is one of my favorite moments I've captured. I had just visited the exhibit and I noticed the two ladies seated under the sign. That would have already made a nice picture, but as I was about to press the shutter, one of the ladies lifted her phone and showed it to her friend. and voila. The last taken in the latin quarter was all about the background. I was at first upset because the man on the phone was pacing in front and was waiting for him to leave so I could get someone else to walk in front. He never left and so I decided to make him my subject. I'm glad I did.
BY PAUL CASHMAN
Rotating: Black sheep of the family from a photo walk near my home in Mattishall, Signet rings on The River Cam Cambridge, Salad Dodgers from Anglia Square in Norwich and ‘Track n field’.