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That's a great shot, she's very pretty. Glad
you managed to hold on to the D80! Where in
Bradford was this?
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That's an absolutely awesome image. You must
have been delighted.
(almost as delighted as your bloke)
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It was near that little cafe opposite the
Museum of Photography - I was shooting the
Ice Rink...I think they'd just been skating.
Or carjacking.
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I wanna taste what he's tasting... lovely j l
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The same thought crossed my mind :)
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congrats on your 1st people pix... ;)
portraiture is my only passion in
photography... ;) and this pix goes straight
to my fav collection... ;)
did you ask to take some photosof the girl
only??? ;p she will make a beautiful model...
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@ Zenith - I don't think it would have been
wise under the circumstances - not sure how
it'd have been received...
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Beautiful capture. Love how you call it Young
LUST!!! Made me smile! And, yes, it is a
beautiful image on the girl's face.
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Nice one, J.
Whilst one photograph can only display the
most fleeting glimpse of a personality I
think you have captured perfectly the essence
of each of your subjects. Excellent stuff.
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Bei ritratti!
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Congrats on your 1st portait, the composition
is excellent well done, but I would prefered
to crop it .
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@ Charles - you might be right there - it
does cut out some of the dead space (but also
cuts out his hood...). Thanks for the
comment.
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@Scud
Cheers Paul - all down to them really
though...
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Like it - you can smell the testosterone
coming off the lad, and you've captured that
and the girl's shyness really well.
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good moment....i like the crop as it is. the
B&W really works here..i know you love
colour i see in all your photos but its good
to see you also know when not to use it...as
in this photo..!!! top work...
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like it a lot, the expression is great, you
captured a really good moment, i´m not shure
that the crop will be better...
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This is very nice and it works cropped this
way or tighter - I don't have a preference
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Just a bit under exposed as evident by the
deep shadow area on the left side of the
girl's face. But nice tonal range and
composition.
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Thanks - the original isn't at all under
exposed (the shadows were increased a lot
when it was processed to add to the mood of
the image - you could argue that it's also
overexposed, as evident by the bright white
on the right side of her face) but thanks for
the comment.
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Nice pic. Crop it!
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do not be confused: no crop needed.
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Thanks @ 10-1
Given the split opinion on the crop I'll
leave it as it is.
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 This award serves as an invitation.
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Cool. Thanks IAAM :)
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I like it, good story :)
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Great portrait.
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Both their faces tell their own interesting
story. Amazing photo!
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I think you've got to continue taking
portraits, as you've done such a fantasic job
here. It has a wonderfully classical quality
about it. (Wouldn't they just love to see it
in about 50 years time?!)
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I'd love to blue, but not really had the
opportunity. Richbos did suggest a project I
might try, which would hopefully produce a
series very much along the lines of this one.
Just need to build confidence - I don't know
how Briggate does it!
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the title enhances the photo one hundred
percent
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Hey... you have the confidence, I feel sure
of it! Briggate does it by taking first, then
smiling and then engaging in a sort of
conspiratorial way. Can lead to utter
disaster, but works beautifully more often
than not.
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Really love this picture.
Man is proud to have such a beautiful gf
and woman is happy that her man is proud of
her beauty.
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What a beautiful, youthful twosome. The
tongue does it. And the creamy soft light.
Love it.
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B & W ;-)
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Really nice.
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Thanks @ Joshua, inzauker, kykirkwood, airgap
and Nils for the great comments and the faves
=)
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Such a nice shot, your subjects are really
coming alive here. I loved reading the story
behind this picture too.
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Keep coming back to this one, Jay. Still a
really great image.
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That's nice. I was worried it'd start to
decompose...
Although it's worrying that you have to
search back through the stream to find some
good stuff...
hehe
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There are some streams I *never* revisit ....
and some I feel I *must* revisit.
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in my part of bratford he would be licking
his lips at the D80 he is going to have.
(just joking ) brilliant black and white.
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Geoff - I'm 6'3", he was about
5'2"...if he wanted my D80 he'd have had
a struggle. Or a knife...lol
Cheers fella
;)
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This is fantastic!
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superb portrait with a story, your first
portrait rocks
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Spotted in the Tate!
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Thanks Ms Blue - cool :)
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 Wow! that really was very well spotted :))
Waygood Gallery and studios in Newcastle
upon Tyne, where I live and work, have been
discussing the way that the Tate Gallery has
been using flickr and been integrating it
into its website and physical gallery.
If anyone would like to add their Tate
pictures or add any further comments to this discussion then of course that would be very cool.
thanks.
 It is great to see this picture in detail.
It is wicked :) Thank you for adding your note.
Isn't flickr fantastic...
I love it when connections like this are
made.
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Grewlike - as soon as I saw the large image I
recognised JLM's photo - it's pretty
memorable :)
I love that one of my contacts took a photo
of another's image quite by chance.
Interestingly you two only share two contacts
- me and Dave Gorman and so aren't you lucky
I recognised the image!
What other images have you submitted to How
We Are Now?
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 365 Britons, and we'd love to have your photo added to
the group.
Great stuff, well done.
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gratz, saw the pic as a winner of 'how are we
now' and i agree, its great!
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Great Photo!!! Fantastic!!!
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Congrats on being a winner - well deserved!
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Yeh... can see why this will be at the
Tate... perfect shot! Really captures that
age group and the 'cockiness' they have.
Love this!
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How exciting !!! :)))
Very well done.
I am delighted that your picture was
selected.
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Congratulations.
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Can I ride on your imminent stardom from
being 1st to comment? LOL
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Hop on - we're not going far ;)
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Cool portrait - I love the life in it.
Congratulations on making the final 40 :-)
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Yay! So lovely to see this was selected for
the Tate how-we-are 40.
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found this on the tate briatin website! well
done! went to see the exhibition on saturday,
it was brillant, definately worth a visit.
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I'm hoping to get down soon Emma - thanks for
the recommendation :)
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Ah well, photographic proof that girls like
rough, lust is blind and chav's are nothing
more then genetic pond scum.
Great photo though, personally someone
following me would have got the 3 stone
camera bag over the head.
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... classic, great photo. You will love it
forever .... !!
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Already a fave of mine, glad to see it in
Tate 40.
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Such a great shot. Faved :-)
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fantastic photo!!!!! Congratulations on
making the final 40
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Thanks for all the views, comments and faves
generated as part of the Tate exhibition -
it's great to see Flickr used in this kind of
partnership and the opportunities for us
'non-pros'!
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This photograph was selected as one of forty
photographs in the How We Are Now Flickr group which invited members of the
public to submit their photographs to the
exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain in 2007. The Final 40 photographs were shown at Tate Britain for
the last month of the exhibition and are
archived on Tate Online.
We would like to congratulate J L M and
thank all those who took part in the project.
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Congrats, Jay. How cool is that! And so
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it's so beautiful and young.
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Well you never know, one day she might see
this in the Tate (he might see it if he's
robbing it at the time), either that or
she'll be pregnant by 17 and the only thing
she'll see is the back of him running away.
Shoot a chav, just not with a camera.
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I have been trying to work out what this
reminded me of for weeks... And the closest i
can get is the famous quadrophenia film
poster. Not sure who took the photo but it
certainly captures the same mood.
love it and congratulations on the tate.
It doesnt get much bigger..
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This shot is funny, nice one!
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Eye Candy!, and we'd love to have your photo added to
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I like your photo. I came across it as I
looked you up from an article about an
exhibition you are going to be in, in Leeds.
I just wanted to add something though. There
are many comments here about the couple you
photographed. There are some really strong
assumptions. How do you know they won't ever
see the photo? Do you think they will never
use the internet or read a magazine or go to
a gallery? How does anyone here know he
wanted your D80 or might carry a knife? Or
that she'll end up pregnant at 17? I just
want to say to the users that have commented
on here that I find it difficult that they
all think this is a great photo, that it has
been selected for the 'How we are' show, and
yet the comments are so blase about assuming
they are better than the subject that has
been captured. Maybe if someone does 'shoot a
chav' with a camera it would be possible to
actually talk to them too, you never know
they might be interested in that D80 for a
whole heap of reasons that don't just stem
from nicking it and selling it down the pub.
I live in Bradford, so I have a grasp on
the social situations there. I just feel
there needs to be a sensitivity that despite
the lens capturing a good photograph - the
subjects are real people.
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Hi Lulu - Thanks for the comment.
Firstly, you're correct - there are some strong assumptions made, but they must
be viewed in context. For example, when I
first posted this image my typical number of
views for a photograph were about 100.
Therefore the chances of anybody that knew
these kids, let alone the kids themselves,
viewing this were very remote. It has nothing
to do with their propensity to use the
internet, read a magazine or go to a gallery
it's just a statistical fact. At that time it was highly unlikely that they would see
the image. Now - fast forward 9 months down
the line and the image has been in the Tate,
widely circulated and indeed appeared in the
Yorkshire Post. The chances that they've seen
it have now increased dramatically - but I
don't like going back and editing comments.
A similar case goes for some of the other
comments. I haven't ever deleted a single
comment (that I can remember) on any of my
images as I absolutely disagree with
censorship of opinion - period. If the tone
is superior, then that's a comment on the
viewers.
Let's not also forget that they asked me to take their photo. In fact, it wasn't so
much a question as a demand - so any 'shoot a
chav' was done purely at their behest and NOT
as some kind of social commentary and
certainly not at their expense.
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@luluartist if you bother to read the
comments right i said IF he lived where i
live. I live in bradford as stated in my
comment and if he was on the estate were i
live the photographer WOULD likely lose his
camera FACT . no i dont think iam better
than them but i live in the REAL world not
cloud cuckooland .
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ps sorry jlm but bleeding heart dogooders get
on my ***s and I DO think it's a good photo.
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I think this shot speaks for itself, it must
do to prompt comment. As it goes I believe
there's substantially harsher, deeper and
broader social comment to be found in Martin
Parrs work, it's just not posted on FLICKR
with 'explained critique'
;-)
Everyone's entitled to their opinion tho',
even if they don't take photos themselves, I
don't paint but enjoy certain works of art (
although not many...! ).
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Still raising conversation months after it
was 'published'. That's the power of
photography.
I've lived in Bradford for 3 years now and
I think that some of the reaction to this
image is somehow linked to the general
impression of the city held by it's residents
and non-residents. I don't think there is a
lot of love for Bradford but I'm not sure
why. As far as I'm aware there aren't any
areas in Bradford that are 'no-go' areas
where you will be robbed just because you
owned something (although I'm open to
enlightenment)
This photo is great but I think the
reaction to it is equally interesting. That
is the power of Flickr (with a little help
from the Tate)
@Richbos: I don't think Parr's work would
ever fit in Flickr. It needs to be seen as a
collection and his appeal is very limited as
I don't think people who can relate to his
subjects would find any deeper meaning to
his work.
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I didn't go through the above comments ! Too
long... ;)
To me they look awesome and only that's all
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Fantastic capture! Greatness.
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the group.
well captured
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andreas fotos [deleted] says:
great composition & moment caught :]
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"It's a shame they'll never see the
result" - its been on national TV now,
so you never know! I suspect she may have
moved on to more promising pastures by now
though.
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I used to carry a few small cards with (when
I used it) my smug mug address on them, so
people could have a look.
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Splendid candid. I do wish I had the
confidence to take these.
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this is extremely impressive for a first
portrait. i love it.
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Black and White Portraits/Denver, and we'd love to have this added to the
group!
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called hoodiepeople, and we'd love to have this added to the
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