Still life documentary

Nigel Shafran


A photographer which i found while researching still life documentary photographers in my own time was Nigel Shafran. This photographer has explored working in series to document many still life objects or scenes. The work of Nigel Shafran is something which i have enjoyed looking at and is something which is inspiring me for ideas for this brief. Unlike the work of the photographer i previously researched Nigel Shafran captures more imagery of scenes or stingings rather than singular objects. 

Here he captures a series of images book shelves. much like the work of Stephen Gill, the photographer choses a theme then captures images of the variations of that same object. 

http://www.nigelshafran.com/pages/book_pages/001book.html

http://www.nigelshafran.com/pages/book_pages/002book.html

http://www.nigelshafran.com/pages/book_pages/003book.html

Nigel Shafran has also captured series of images of stair cases and suburban garages.


Stairs;

http://www.nigelshafran.com/pages/stairs_pages/001stairs.html

http://www.nigelshafran.com/pages/stairs_pages/002stairs.html


Suburban Garages;

http://www.nigelshafran.com/pages/suburban_garages_pages/001suburban_garages.html

http://www.nigelshafran.com/pages/suburban_garages_pages/002suburban_garages.html


This concept if capturing images of something which by classification is the same object, but has many variations of it is something i want to capture in my own still life photography. Again, through this concept you look at the different variations of the object and start to wonder and assume whom it may belong to. They work almost as self portraits without having to even include the person within them.