Briefing

To start this assignment we were asked to choose a folded up piece of paper out of a box without looking, on this piece of paper would be a photographer. When we had chosen our photographer we were told that we needed to research this photographer and make a presentation answering the following questions:

What is their approach/what tradition does their work belong to?

What is their work about?

How is their work made? What equipment/techniques do they use?

Where have they published their work (books, galleries, magazines etc)?

To start off my research i decided to look in a book i owned 'The Photography Book' Phaidon, in here i found a page on Richard Billingham,

As the text is not clear on the scanned in image i will pick out my favourite parts of the text that explains Billingham's work,

'Billingham's study is a corrective to the melodramatic but well-turned-out soap operas on British television. His tactic is to get close enough to ornaments, wallpaper and skin texture to bring the milieu to believeable life.'

'The idea may be that puzzle-solving stands for mending lives broken into pieces'

'This is Elizabeth, the photographers mother, who appears in Billingham's celebrated family album of 1996 called 'Ray's a laugh' a title from the bygone radio comedy programme'