OPEN-i Webinar: Photographic the Personal

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Comment by Kirk Ellingham on July 23, 2010 at 3:33pm

Cant belive I missed this lecture...

Comment by Kirk Ellingham on July 23, 2010 at 3:23pm

My most succesful work to date was work on my own family being affected by my Grandfathers PROGRESSIVE Dementia from 2006-2010.
It one an award in Brazil & Exhibited there, as wella s being a finalist in ITSWeb 7, on the strength of this work I was admitted on Paul Lowes run MA in Doc photography at LCC.
The comments & feedbacks I mostly got back from my peers and tutors is that the work is beautiful and strong but editors publications etc may sometimes not be coinvinced by a perssonal project especially on ones own family that I could also complete a foreign project etc with the same emotion, strength and closeness?

These photographers obviously proove otherwise?...or they have divers portfolios as well..what are other people thoughts on this?
Because I have entered the work for several other competitions and awards rangeing from the Ian parry to Sony world photo competition without success.
Thanks

Links:
Mixed images: http://kellingham.viewbook.com/permalink/106565/d36a6a93d33f9b#1

Comment by OPEN-i on July 23, 2010 at 12:35pm

Some other photographers who have documented their own families: (please feel free to add more)

Nick Wapplington: photographed friends/neighbours and published two books: Living Room and Weddings, Parties, Anything, (both Aperture Foundation)

Mitch Epstein: Family Business: http://www.mitchepstein.net/work/family/index.html

Chris Verene: http://www.chrisverene.com/galesburg.html

Eugene Richards, who photographed his parents (The Fat Baby) and his first wife’s passing (Exploding into Life)

Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur documenting their lives as carers for his father-in-law: http://www.mediastorm.com/publication/the-sandwich-generation

Sally Mann - some of her work from Immediate Family: http://www.art-forum.org/z_Mann/gallery.htm
Some mutlimedia about Sally Mann's work/process: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/index.html

Larry Sultan - photographed father and family over 10 years. See short BBC video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUau7LcpEE
An interview with him from 1982: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121605471

Richard Billingham - photographed his British family in a sometimes brutal honest light: see interview on American Suburb X http://www.americansuburbx.com/2008/11/richard-billingham-rays-laug...

Larry Towell - documented his family in Canada and their connection to the land
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage&VB...

Pedro Meyer: photographed his father before he passed: http://www.pedromeyer.com/galleries/i-photograph/

Some others members have mentioned:
Nicholas Nixon: http://www.zabriskiegallery.com/Nixon/TBS/nixonimages.htm
Matt Austin http://mattaustinphoto.com/
Elizabeth Fleming http://www.elizabethfleming.com/