Walker Evans

Walker Evans is best known for his documentation on the great depression. He spent two months on a fixed term campaign for the resettlement administration in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. During this time he stayed with three white families in Alabama and continued to document the depression.

All of his work was shot on film and has been developed in black and white. I think that this helps to enhance the tonal values of his images and also shows the fine grey scale detail within the shots.

He also combines different genres, as a lot of his work contains portraits of people suffering during this time. Some of his work can be seen below.

As you can see featured below he also documented the buildings and landscapes of the time. Again this combines another genre with the documentation of his pictures. Again he uses he same style.

I am hoping to create a series of pictures like this for a number of events hosted throughout Yorkshire over the next few weeks. I haven't yet decided if i am going to use film or digital, but I think that I am going to shoot in black and white.