My Love of the Big and Small

JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN

When I was studying in college, I came across the photography artist Julia Fullerton-Batten and was blown away by her work. I couldn't use her in my first year projects which I had already started but I made sure that I made room for her in my second year.

This is one of the first photographs I found; "Broken Eggs" (2005).

She Loves To Move

A bit about me.... 

• I secretly want to be a mountain hiker or climber. 
• I wish I could live in a wooden cabin by myself in the middle of a secluded forest, faraway form anyone and anything.
• I want to travel the world and not just do the touristy stuff, I want to go to that random town that's no-one knows is there except for locals because "it's nothing special" and then find what's special about it, just for memories sake..
• I'd love to go to Paris, I have a strange obsession with going and with the Parisian theme. I think it's mainly down to watching "Anastasia" too much as a child.
• I speak three languages to almost conversational standard; Welsh, Spanish and English.
• I've gone through a lot over the last year and a half. I'm still recovering but thankfully I've got over the shock of it all by now.
• I'm a typography enthusiast. If you don't know what typography is...
• I'm an enthusiast of a lot of things actually and each time I get more into one of my hobbies I wonder if I could use this one as my "career".
• I could stare out at the horizon on the sea for hours on end and this is where I'm most creative and can make big decisions.
• One of the best feelings is just going out and going for a walk. Also a hike-but a walk....
• I can't really imagine my life without music being in it. Even Beethoven had a way. He knew he would be missing out on something without it.
• I wish I could just wear dresses-particularly 1950's and 60's dresses or better still, Princess dresses every day for my daily activities. But sadly it's too impractical. I also think the novelty might wear off and I don't want that to happen!

• I didn't start doing photography until I was 17 and now I'm in love with it. Most great photographers like David Bailey and Annie Leibovitz to name just a few started out when they were older, most much older than 17. That's a big encouragement :).
• I'm not afraid to make a fool out of myself for entertainment purposes.
• Even kids think I'm crazy. That's saying something.
• I'm a tea fanatic but after all these years I'm trying to get out of it since the caffeine is really starting to affect me! So I switched to fancy coffees. Of course.

• I like to think of myself as a really unfussy eater. Seriously, if you make me something and I don't really like it, I'll eat it anyway because it's food that I didn't have to cook and will give me energy and also (mainly-I'm British) to be polite.
• I've been told that I'm intimidating and I'm too sure of myself-that's the reason that I'm intimidating! Well I'm not going to apologise for that.
• I think hate is a really strong word so I don't use it unless absolutely necessary.

Well let's see how far we've come.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier Bressom is considered one of the "fathers" of photojournalism and was also highly skilled in candid photographs and street photography, a relation of photojournalism. Of course, photojournalism heavily includes catastrophic and historical events (and let's face it, the news is usually bad news).

Photojournalism is generally the name for the photographs found in your everyday ("hard news") newspaper! Also the form is not restricted to this type of published print. 

Photograph 'Newspaper Rack' by me (Clare Louise).

Bressom wanted to recognise 'the significance if an event' with his photography.

Street Photography by Henri Cartier Bressom;

Two boys-perhaps brothers? Sheltering together form the weather. Maybe they are on their way home form school...

 

Two ladies crossing the road, both looking unimpressed-but maybe these are their natural relaxed faces or it's just their concentration on the apparent load of oncoming traffic...

My own significant event:

Photograph 'Street Protesters' by me (Clare Louise).

A street protest in the city centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Police are patrolling and controlling the seemingly peaceful march of locals. In a lot of cases for the sake of benefits (although I don't understand the politics  many Argentines on government support have to march and protest on days they are told too or apparently their financial support suffers.

That's what I'm told....

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

~Henri Cartier-Bresson