Connecting Essay 4

This is an image I found online which was taken at Brick Lane with lots of different posters covering the windows of an old pub which was founded in 1711. I find this really symbolic because it's almost as if the new medium of posters is modernising the vintage location of the pub. I personally believe this links to youth quite well because a pub is stereo-typically the location of youths, even though you are meant to be 18 when you are allowed to buy alcohol, many youths still spend lots of their time within pubs. 

The wide depth of field of this image is really interesting because it has meant the audience are shown the whole spread of the pub, not withstanding this you can also see the passer by and has managed to capture it directly in the middle of the door frame- this can also be classed as the decisive moment, if this photo would have been taken a moment later the subject would have passed this point and be standing in a different position. 

Furthermore the theme/ editing of this image gives it a vintage impact to the photo, this could have been the effect created through a film camera. I find this an interesting approach of youth because it shows hows even though society has progressed in terms of technology- the camera- the subcultures of youths have changed, the perspective of youths being lower and dependent on the older generation also always looking out for trouble. 

During my adventure around and near Brick Lane, I came across a row of old looking buildings and I particularly liked this one. When researching this building, I found that it is an old entrance to a Dairy Express and every time someone passes this place, they are meant to add something, recording when they went, it is almost as if it is a time capsule on a door which I think is really interesting because over the years more and more posters and words have been written and placed on here over each other which has created a really interesting effect and almost as if it has become a collage. I got one of my subjects to stand by it because I thought her coat looked like it fitted in due to the dark purple tone colouring. I also find the angle of the image is really interesting because I haven't zoomed in to the subject but have included both the gates and a door next to it which I find creates a really nice contrast from new to old, this door looks newly/ recently painted in comparison to the the gates shown in the main frame of this image. 

Other than these two images both being located within Brick Lane in London, I think both these images connect really well due to the use of posters. As shown in one of my shoots, Stickers and posters are so vibrate and pretty much cover the streets of London as advertising purposes, yet with these two image I find it symbolic in the way of youth modernising the old- if these posters and writing weren't here, it would look like an old boring gate or a old abandoned pub, yet the posters brighten it up, including the passers by which I think is really interesting. Even though the image I found online is of an individual walking past and I placed my subject there, I think they both connect int he terms of including youth representations and stereotypes through the use of colour.