Day 157

All the way back in November, I became a photography volunteer for an organization- I was meant to take photos of certain events taking place in my area to be used in magazines and such. I thought this would be a good way to start getting my work out there but nothing really came of it until they asked a bunch of us to apply for a workshop. I was excited to be accepted but was a bit unclear as to what it was all about. Turns out that we are now the official photographers for the organization (too bad I'm leaving England in just over a month...) and the photos we took today are going to be displayed at a show hosted by the organization in May.

Documentary photographer Bryce Bennett led the eight of us through what it means to be a documentary photographer, what to look for and how to tell a story through our work. I have never been one to get into people's faces on the street with my camera so when we were sent out to practice what we had learned that morning, it was a bit nerve racking. But since we only had half an hour to get three photos which we then had to share with the rest of the group, I had to get over this pronto. Ah!

We walked around beautiful Covent Garden and I ended up with these:








I'm so not familiar with documentary photography so I kind of failed at the "telling of a story" aspect of it but I do feel more comfortable approaching people on the street with my camera.

We then went out again, this time over the Waterloo Bridge.

This man was quite excited to pose for me:

while this woman clearly was not:

Not sure I have my heart set out on becoming a documentary photographer any time soon, but all in all I learned a lot!