Research for Car Horn Development :)

When looking back at my video's of the people and their car horns, made me reflect on that idea and develop that idea into a bigger collection of people, their cars and horns maybe turn out to be quite humorous but simple.

Having the image besides it of the owners adds that extra sense of 'story' to the people and their car choice.

A specific photographer which may give an extra insight and further ideas and development is Stephen Gill.
When looking at his images; I took note that his images are good but look better in a set. This made me link to my idea of the car horns. Having a series of images of the people and their car as well as a series of videos of the car horns. As a set it would speak a lot more about their characters and stories.

Stephen Gill himself grew up being introduced to photography from a young age, by his father-- his first images reflect his interests of birds, animals and music.

"Stephen Gill is emerging as a Major force in British photography.
His best work is a hybrid between documentary and conceptual work. It is the repeated exploration of one idea executed with the precision that makes these series so fascinating and illuminating. Gill brings a very British, understated irony into portrait and landscape photography." Martin Parr
Here is a website that briefly introduces Stephen Gill and some of his work: Click Here

Gill's photos can sometimes apparently be of nothing in particular.

He says "I've taught myself to really step back and have the equal treatment of things, I know that while photography is often seen as the amplification of something, it is also good at doing the opposite, quietening things and not enhancing them, and them perhaps you want to look at the picture, and study it, more."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7813330/Photographer-Stephen-Gill-the-devil-in-the-detail.html

Gill has done projects of back of advertising billboards, cinema audiences, shopping trolleys and the ongoing fascination with nature-- trees, insects, swans. He also started with an exhibition based on an illegal market which led him to photograph and document the mountains of fridges, old television sets and second hand shoes.

Here is one of his many images.

Another photographer which can link to my work is Oscar Fernando Gomez Rodriguez, he is an artist who lives and works in Mexico. He began as a wedding photographer but then moved on to creating his income from becoming a taxi driver.
The window of the taxi became the frame work as he travelled across Moneterrey, Mexico documenting life as he knew it. He has his own exhibitions and eventually hopes to owen his own taxi.

"While some dream on a mattress, others sell a mattress to get something they dreamed of."

This was his best shot. "reminded me of me"

The only link that fits well with my idea, is that Oscar was photographing out of the taxi but I am photographing in.