Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller was born in 1966 in England and is a conflict photographer that took a project under the name of the 'miners strike'. Margret Thatcher shut down a lot of mines which took a lot of jobs for the working class. This created a lot of conflict and violence for the police and the working class. Deller decided to take it into his own hands to get involved and capture this atmosphere into photographs.Deller belongs to the Conflict, Documentary & Photojournalism movements. These are movements that show conflicting imagery while also telling a story, documentary photography is a movement that allows the photographer to document real life issues and situations within an image.
These three images were taken as part of Dellers project under the name 'Miners Strike' this was a project Deller had taken up during the 1984 Battle of Orgreave, these images were taken to show the conflict between the miners that had lost their jobs and the violent police officers on duty that day. These images connote violence, anger and sorrow for the men that had lost their jobs due to Margret Thatcher closing all the mines down and taking thousands of working men out of business. These images are photographs of fighting and violence. I agree with the intended meaning of the photographs taken within Dellers 'Miners Strike' project of showing that how life can change so quick in just one decision and how these men are pretty much fighting for their lives and work to have a house over their heads and they are doing anything they can to make a living in this situation.
The techniques that have been used in these photographs are angles and shot types, Deller has taken an image using a low angle facing upwards, this creates a powerful image and making the violence stand out. Deller using a low angle facing upwards has made the violent men look very masculine and over powering to look giant like. Deller also uses depth of field in an image to show how many people were causing violence in one image, the amount of miners that day were as far as the eye can see, this creates a powerful image as if the miners were lining up taking it in turns to fight the police men on duty all down to anger from loosing their job.
I can use this work as part of my theme as I have an idea or using documentary photography with the working class to show the struggle in life, this is exactly what Deller has done with this project. This work inspires me as Deller shows perfectly how hard life can get for the working class in within a group of images taken and also that we need to be grateful for what we have before it has all gone and we could be in the same position as these men by just a few words by important people that we can't change.
These three images were taken as part of Dellers project under the name 'Miners Strike' this was a project Deller had taken up during the 1984 Battle of Orgreave, these images were taken to show the conflict between the miners that had lost their jobs and the violent police officers on duty that day. These images connote violence, anger and sorrow for the men that had lost their jobs due to Margret Thatcher closing all the mines down and taking thousands of working men out of business. These images are photographs of fighting and violence. I agree with the intended meaning of the photographs taken within Dellers 'Miners Strike' project of showing that how life can change so quick in just one decision and how these men are pretty much fighting for their lives and work to have a house over their heads and they are doing anything they can to make a living in this situation.
The techniques that have been used in these photographs are angles and shot types, Deller has taken an image using a low angle facing upwards, this creates a powerful image and making the violence stand out. Deller using a low angle facing upwards has made the violent men look very masculine and over powering to look giant like. Deller also uses depth of field in an image to show how many people were causing violence in one image, the amount of miners that day were as far as the eye can see, this creates a powerful image as if the miners were lining up taking it in turns to fight the police men on duty all down to anger from loosing their job.
I can use this work as part of my theme as I have an idea or using documentary photography with the working class to show the struggle in life, this is exactly what Deller has done with this project. This work inspires me as Deller shows perfectly how hard life can get for the working class in within a group of images taken and also that we need to be grateful for what we have before it has all gone and we could be in the same position as these men by just a few words by important people that we can't change.
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