"Whether in colour or black & white, location or studio, John Londei's forte is people: young, old, famous, infamous and all shades in between. His photographs also appear in books and magazines worldwide.
In addition to commercial work for clients he also shoots personal projects on large format cameras. The most recent is a diverse range of formal groups of people. Another project, shot on 10X8 is a series of fast disappearing shops and shopkeepers, described as a definitive tribute to a vanishing era, has been published as a book called 'Shutting Up Shop' Photographs from the book were exhibited in solo exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of London. Other projects, also portraiture, concentrate on the individual, often taken with a touch of humour."
Of John Londei's images it is the images from the 'Shutting Up Shop' series that are of interest to me for this project. They follow a very similar idea to the idea I have to document local markets. Below are some of my favorite images from the set.
I would like to capture an essence of these photographs in my images. In my market project I would like to try and focus on the people as the people make the market. Without the people the market wouldn't be like it is. Many people visit the market for the people, they visit the market stall for the name, the name of who owns the stall.
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