NICK TURPIN RESEARCH
- Street Photography is at the heart of Nick’s approach to image making, he considers it the hardest challenge in photography.
- A great Street Photograph usually combines fantastic framing with a spectacular moment and an element of cleverness, thereby appealing to the eye, the mind and the heart.
- Part of the documentary tradition in photography, Street Photography is a specific and distinct approach to recording life in public places. In 2017 Nick Turpin suggested Candid Public Photography as a more descriptive and inclusive definition. Over 202k images on Instagram now use the #canpubphoto hashtag to denote that the images are unstaged and unmanipulated.
- Street Photography is a form of Documentary Photography that doesn’t have a subject or story any narrower than that of public life in general. In order to make a documentary photographic record Street Photographers make Candid Public Photographs, observing rather than directing the scenes they record.
- It is generally considered that Street Photography does not include intervention, staging, manipulating or compositing as these practices would go against the intention to produce a photograph that has a strong relationship to the original scene it records'.
LIVERPOOL ONE:
- Nick Turpin had also travelled to Liverpool to 'look for pictures that captured everyday street scenes but also showing the architecture and public spaces that were in Liverpool and how they were occupied'.
- Architects Journal commissioned Nick to photograph the Liverpool One shopping centre 12 years after its completion to see how it has ‘bedded in’ to the City of Liverpool.
PHOTOBOOK: ON THE NIGHT BUS
- Portrays London's busy nights travelling home at the end of the day, shot around 3 winters
- Whenever a bus pulled up, Turpin would hurry down the platform, peering into each of its 12 windows to spot the most interesting passengers. Hidden by the dark and distance, Turpin snapped candid shots with a Canon 5D Mark II and III, a long 300 mm lens and a slow shutter speed of 1/40 per second to compensate for the low light. He'd get five or six images before the bus drove away. He used Photoshop to adjust the colour and contrast on his best images.
- The series was published in November 2017.
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