ANIMAL

REVIEW
The gallery is very simple and cozy. The theme of this solo exhibition is loss,
memory and reflection. The entire picture was taken by Peter Day himself to contribute
about his father house that located at Brighouse, Yorkshire. He started to photograph
the picture, eight month his death. He tries to share his personal experiences
when you loss someone and maybe viewers can feel it based own their experiences
as well. “ I am to cause viewers to stop, reflect and consider for a short time” said
Peter, and what he hoping actually and “I am not sure we ever come to terms with
loss, but my project places this grief at the centre so that it can be communicated,
measured and discussed”, said Peter again.
When we enter the gallery, we can see the large empty area at the middle of it,
there are only two benches for people to sit down. During peak hour, people can move
around easily without touch each other’s. The first picture is on your left when you
enter the gallery. So if we followed the photo one by one, we can see the story behind
those pictures. Beside that, every two or three photos, he will put one poem related to
his or fathers life. It quite interesting and makes us want to read the poem. The poem
also related to the next photo that we would see. To be honest when I entered the
gallery, I not sure and understand what the story of the picture. This is because all the
picture that he taken quite subjective in term of the exhibition title. It’s more to fine art
because at first I thought it’s all about physical of his father or something like that. But
I’m totally wrong about it. It’s more to something that related to his father. Peter Day
also put two digital monitors at the wall so we can see every picture that been exhibit
one by one more digitally. Beside that, a catalogue and pamphlets containing texts,
photos and write-up from the project, been provided by organizer.
Overall, the exhibition is quite different with others. We can feel the feeling of
when someone that you really love and closed already gone and left us forever. This
project is about the bonding of relationship that never end between son and his father.
HOW TO DO
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
HOW TO
It is not hard to explain the meaning of street photography. If you go to
Google or Wikipedia, you can find the meaning easily. But from my opinion,
the meaning of street photography is, you shoot an event or public without
their realized it. You just point, shoot and go away from them. Without any
setup and no repeated on that action again. Only live action will do. But
sometimes you can ask a permission to take a photo especially people.
Street photography is very subjective. Normal people tend to shoot
what they see from their eyes only. But those who are really aware with the
surrounding, they can see a lot things on the street. For example people
walking at the zebra crossing wearing a black and white pants or eldest
eating an ice cream, sit at the bench with a big beach mural at the back. So,
to be a street photographer, you must alert with surrounding or have a catchy
eye. It can help you very much.
To do street photography, the important thing you must have is a
camera. It is not an important you have a very high-end equipment or camera
to get a good photo. I believe it is all depends on your eyes and your heart.
Combine this together, you can get a marvelous picture by using a kit lens
with a cropping camera. Basically, you can use any camera you have, a compact,
polaroid or nowadays a lot people just using their own high end hand
phone camera.