The Photography of Damian Lidgard
This is the fifty-second and final ‘Instruction’ for the Street Photography Now Project, written to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we all live in.
After spending 52 weeks posting images from my library to meet the requirements of the instruction, I should have lots of drive to post images that I see during my week. So keep checking in! So here is the last street photography instruction:
“If you have talent, find your own way” – Cristóbal Hara
The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.” – Christophe Agou
“Remember Robert Capa’s words: “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough”” – Andrew Glickman
Leeks
One minute...
Pigeons
Charles Flowers on Elliott Erwitt’s Handbook (2003)
“Always include hands, because they are more expressive than the face”
"...as much as 60 percent of all human communication anywhere in the world is non-verbal, being accomplished principally with the hands"
"...we want to touch and be touched, or we wither away and die"
“Take a bus. Do weekly shopping. Pop into a public loo” Nils Jorgensen
I like this image quite a lot. There are striking colours on a grey background and regular shapes and lines of the boxes and fish stall that are broken by the curves of the people. Most of all, it is a brief moment during a weekly shopping excursion.
Welcome to the weekly image post by Damian Lidgard, Lidgard Photography. Each week I will be posting a new image for you to view. Hopefully this will inspire you to stop and look a little as you go about your daily routines.
To start the weekly posting of images I thought I would follow the Street Photography Now project, “…a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, London, and Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren”. Each month, for the past few months leading contemporary street photographers have been posting a monthly assignment on street photography with the aim of creating inspiration to look at the world in a different way.
The second assignment was entitled:
” Turn your attention to the four-legged population” Ying Tang
Black dog, Halifax Farmers' Market
Fine-Art Prints with acid-free mat and foamcore backing. Sealed in acid-free polythene bag.
