We Are Family

Question: Who said: "the camera gave me the license to strip away what you want people to know about you, to reveal what you can't help people knowing about you'?

Answer: Diane Arbus


Question: Do you think that photographers tend to pray on vulnerable people?

Answer: Honestly this is not a question that has a yes or no answer. Sometimes it does appear that photographers can pray on those who are vulnerable. However other times they would take photos of people who would not be concidered vulnerable such as the wealthy. But the big question that then arises from the first question is who do we consider vulnerable, some can be physically, ecomically or mentally vulnerable and who determines who is who.


Question: What is Larry Clark's Tulsa project about?

Answer: It is a project about the youth of a suburb involving sex, drugs and guns from Clark's hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.


Question: What is the title of Nan Goldin's most renowned work?

Answer: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.


Question? What is Nobuyoshi Araki's and what does he photograph today?


Answer: He believes that if you don not shoot photography than you do not remember life and so now he only takes photos of thing's in life he wants to remember. Today he photographs his daily life and the people he encounters and events which take place.


Question? What was Richard Billingham's work about?

Answer: His work was about the working class life in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and in particularly the life of his separated parents. His father was also an alcoholic.


Photographer:  One photographer whose work I really enjoyed from the film was that of Larry Sultan. This reason for this was he was capturing everyday life in the Reagan era USA, of his parents and family and although the pictures are very bright there feels that there is an underlying sense of darns and despair. It is almost as if they are not real.