oxfam and rankin's portraits and stories of people who live in a refugee camp in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo. i think it is a really beautiful project and recommend anyone in london to go and see it. it's on until 21 december so there's time. you can also click the link and see it online if you haven't already (but to be just a bit shallow and studenty for a moment, the way it's shown on big lightboxes is a really nice thing too)yesterday i saw the film "the posters came from the walls" it's a documentary about fans of depeche mode, and how devotion for the band, it's music and members, has shaped their lives and their outlook. not being a fan myself it was a really interesting way to see the way individuals around the world reacted and the significance they placed on a band whose lyrics meant so much to them. it helped me to think about how documentary stories are made up and that by making a story about one thing you can actually tell several different ones too.
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I saw this (the news that he'd done it, not the actual exhibition) and didn't know what to think. I still don't know what to think. The combination of fashionesque photography and the individual stories of the subjects is most peculiar. It's certainly different. Why did you think it's beautiful?
i think it's beautiful because you see the people. the expressions in their eyes, even their pores... you can see that they were a part of the making of the photograph. you are looking face to face at another person as real as you telling their story. they are really good portraits quite apart from the fact that they are of people whose lives so often either get forgotten or lumped together in one big landscape shot.
p.s why do you think it's fashiony?
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