Aaron Guy is a photographer who is associated with the North East Photography Network, and works at the North of England Institute of Mining. When we got told that he was giving a talk about his work I decided to look into what he has been working on. I'll be honest, when I first looked at his work I didn't really understand or relate to it in the slightest. I thought the images were nothing spectacular, and I didn't think I would like the talk I was going to attend and it could quite possibly be a day wasted. Once we got to the hall we would be having the talk in we took our seats and I got out my notebook to write anything down if I found it interesting or like it would be helpful to my work.
As I said earlier I didn't really find his work interesting or anything special, however when he started talking about his work I understood why he was taking the images he did in the way he did. The project we looked at of his was one called 'Working, Void' and all his work started to make sense to me and I actually really enjoyed him talking about his thought process throughout the project.
The work he was showing us was about where he grew up and how mining was a large part of his upbringing as his father worked there and once he grew up his friends from school started to work there. He spent around 4 years working on this project so he got to know the people he worked with which I thought was an important part of his project because he included some portrait shots and I think when taking portraits that are trying to show who the person is it's a good idea to know the person yourself.
The way he chose to print his final project is what stayed with me the most. He chose to print his images on newspaper. He said how it fits with this project, as he is taking images of workers, the stereotypical associations are newspapers, dirt, and mess. I thought this was a really interesting way of presenting his work as it brings it all together rather than just displaying them in a book.
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