Ciaran Bannon
 | Views and Interests My personal concern for the documentary is the style of documentary we produce. Producing an objective documentary is challenging in itself as interfering with the subject is always going to produce subjective results. However, through photojournalism we would be keeping interference with the subject to a minimum and keeping the truth of the situation. Separating us from the subject of the documentary, it will produce the most valid and effective results, and hopefully capturing the raw emotion of the subject that may be lost in the way if shot in film. On the reverse side, it would provide the ability to present a false truth. Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother was a powerful and thought provoking photo, but it was staged. But the simple power it had over people is evidence that people take a photo as a representation of truth, and conjure emotion in retort. Documentary Photographer Bill Brandt’s “Camera In London” shows the power of photography and the ability to exert emotion from varied subjects - landscape, people, inanimate objects etc. Film documentaries such as The Bridge which are clean, simplistic yet still have the power to move you, are something that interests me greatly. It was just shot with one camera, no interference from the filmmakers and filled with photographic montages. The emotional separation that had to be built between them and the subject amazes me and would be something that I’d like to explore if led to film documentary. The objectivity of the project is a priority to me as the validity of the documentary in it’s truth is what surely challenges it’s success. |
