A few weeks ago I recorded a program on Sky Arts called Rankin: Sky Arts Street Galleries. Today I watched this and the main purpose of the program was to follow Rankin whilst he tries to replace advertising with art in six UK cities. This project was undertaken in 2010 and the six cities were London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and Edinburgh. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this program and liked the relaxed style Rankin uses with his models. I believe he was successful with portraying art using photography and replacing advertising with this art.
Over the last few weeks I have at times had the opportunity to read through some of my photography books. I decided not to read them from front to back, but to look for inspiration within the photograph and try to study certain images in more detail. One particular image in a book titled Photography Year 1978/79 caused me to look and reflect. It’s of a young rightist battering a lynched Communist student with a chair, a student that has already been hung. This image says more than a thousand words and portrays the evil within mankind. The hatred in the rightist’s face is plain to see, shocking but thought provoking. Hopefully one day I will take an image that will change mankind’s attitude to violence and hatred.
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