On Tuesday evening we welcomed Warren Alani to give a talk on his project Inside Out. In this talk he covered many genres. Warren is an accomplish photographer with many awards to his portfolio. He initially started out in a camera club taking images for competitions but moved away to focus on taking photos of the things he likes such as street photography and architecture. The Inside Out project is about evoking emotions via the camera and how to explore the unusual.
He showed us several hundred images from around the world all in black and white. He started off with images all taken in the outdoor environment either looking in from the outside or vice versa. Taking images from different angles showing the unusual, such as upside down mannequins with legs pointing upwards and a person walking past a shopwindow.
He captures people in a variety of situations (eg. at demonstrations) and finding characters with expressions that tells a story (eg. a lone person in the tube station). He uses a slow shutter speed on a static person giving contrast between the subject and the environment around them
He has a fascination with staircases, which he photographs from above and below, portraying movement and showing the patterns, leading lines and shapes. And sometimes just a lone figure on the stairs.
His images encourages the viewers to use their imagination about what could be happening. What is around the corner. Even if his style is not for you, it gets you thinking about the importance of taking images for yourself and things you like.
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