Boogie is a Serbian photographer who captures people who live in harsh conditions, this can range from drug addicts, to skin heads, to gang members. I have chosen this photographer because I think that it puts the differences of lives in perspectives, also form the pictures that I have seen I find them shocking however interesting because unlike other photographers he doesn't focus on the beauty of the World, but the struggles of the world and those that are worst off.
Examples of their work
In this image black and white is used and I think it has been used to show the nakedness of the situation, this is what it is honestly like sometimes. The context of this image is very hard hitting for an audience as a child who is clearly quite young is holding a gun and holding it correctly, like it is aware of how to use it. This makes you think of the amount of times this child has seen a gun being used. In addition to this I think the black and white effect is used to extract the color from the photo as there could of been bright or vibrant colors which would send the wrong message to the audience, I think the photographer wanted the spectators to look at thins image and have negative feelings towards it and perhaps feel empathy/sympathy.
This photo has influenced me to again think about what I what to photograph heavily and the way that I want the audience feel, however this photo has influenced me to do this by adjusting the context of the photograph I take, this can also be achieved easier by changing the color effect to black and white.
In this photograph the effect of black and white has been used and I think it is effective within this picture because the context is a woman injecting herself which we make the connotation to be a woman taking drugs, this is backed up when we see the bruise all over her legs. The black and white tone has created this image to be more grey scale, this for represents that Boogie wants the audience to feel a positive and negative emotion for this image. Positive because it is the woman's release, yet negative because she is addicted to drugs. This then incorporates two views of the image which makes the image understandable for everyone who is viewing this image.
This image has influenced me to use grey scale when I want to allow two views for a picture and just not my set chosen one, I think this is a good technique and also creates a wider more understanding audience as it permits other ideas for the photo rather than the photographers set one that this image represents something bad or something good, it creates a middle ground.
The tone in this image is very dark, showing that the set view or this is that what the man is doing is bad, which is drugs. I like this image as it shows the simplicity, and as this image is in focus you mainly see that the man is taking drugs. Apart from that I dont feel this picture is that interesting, therefore I have nothing else to really say about it.
This image has influenced to me sometimes keep images simple and perhaps a certain thing in focus to highlight something specifically that you want the audience to see.
In this photo the formal element of line is used as you can see the outline a gun line detail, this formal element is really irrelevant to me as I see lines in everything, like there are even lines on the bricks behind him. One thing I do like about this picture is how the guns are in focus and his face is blurred out, this is seeing the guns as the problem and highlighting them the problem, rather than the person behind the gun.
This picture has influenced me to use the technique of focus to show what I want the spectators of my photography to mainly focus on.
Overall
Overall I no longer like this photographer as I find him too repetitive now and too allocated to one field, therefore limiting his work, I now find this photographer really boring. This photographer hasn't really influenced me now that I have based an overall opinion on him.
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