Daidō Moriyama - Train images.

Diadō Moriyama is a Japanese photographer who primarily works in black and white shooting fairly grainy images. His work is often shot from odd angles and shows people in the urban areas of Japan. He has taken a lot of photographs of people waiting for, boarding and riding trains and i think these are interesting, you cant always tell every part of the image but the overall idea is clear, its obvious what the image is about and it makes you look more than if everything was brightly lit. The images give a gritty feel to the urban areas of china, he works with a high contrast which also adds to the dark feel of a china that is still recovering from war. I think i would like to take an image like this, i think it would be interesting to use the trains aspect as the lighting in train stations often comes from harsh florescent lighting which would give interesting lighting for this type of photograph. The odd angle in the photograph above gives the impression that the photographer is also stood waiting for a train, i like this angle as it is interesting and gives a different perspective to the photograph that would not normally be had from a set up photograph. It is more of a photograph that is taken during movement and i think this would be a good way to take mine, it is evident that the subjects in the photograph are unsure what the photographer is doing and i think that this style of photography would be interesting to try myself.