Nicole Perry.
I went to the Cardiff photo Marathon on the 24th
of June 2014. The exhibition was a
competition based in Cardiff for any one who enjoys taking photos.
There was a great range of photos shown. I think the most inspiring thing about
the photos was the attention to detail.
Some of the people had taken photos you would not expect to see in
everyday life and some were set up, others were natural shots.
The photos were split into 12 topics and the artists
had to do one photo for each topic.
For example ‘the power of tens’ was one subject and they all came up
with really different ideas. I
think this made the exhibition really interesting and enjoyable as there was so
much variation and shows how differently everyone thinks creatively. I really liked some of the funny pictures. I didn’t like all the pictures because
of what was shown in them. For
example there was one of David Cameron smiling on a doorstep, but I don’t agree
with his views, so that annoyed me that he was in the exhibition. The exhibition could have been made
more exciting if it was a bit more varied. There were so many photos to look at it was hard to focus
after a while. They could have had
made the photos bigger and had less of them. The other people I was with thought the exhibition was
interesting but not busy enough. I
asked our youth worker what she thought of the exhibition and she said ‘there
were so many photos to look at that at times it felt like a maze! I loved seeing photos that had people I
know and recognised from the city where I lived in them, and it has inspired me
to go to more exhibitions in the future’. I felt very inspired after looking at it, especially
as I have done some filming for a recent youth project I have done and I really
enjoyed it, so would love to take some creative photos of my own in the
future. I would recommend people
to go and see this exhibition.
Callum Cleaver
The Photo Marathon Exhibition was really inspiring
because I loved seeing how different each photographers pictures were, although
they were all given the same topics. I didn’t realise how varied photo’s could be and how
different they can look when they are all lined up next to each other as I have
never really seen any art photography before. My favourite piece showed a jelly baby looking over a
phone for the subject of ‘control’.
I this was quite a creative way of looking at the subject and was
showing how controlled we are everyday by using our mobile phones. It was also quite funny as they could
take the photo quite close up and the jelly baby made it was really bright and
colourful. If there were more people present at the exhibition it
would have been more exciting as there would have been a better atmosphere and
I could have heard more people’s opinions on the work. At times we found it boring as there
were too many to look at. I would recommend this exhibition to people who have
an interest in photography.
Josh Preddy
For this activity I went to the 'Photo Marathon'
Exhibition in Cardiff Story Museum on 24th June 2014. The exhibition
showed photos that local people had sent in of their everyday lives and there was
a competition for the best photos.
The exhibition inspired me as I found certain things
stood out, because I recognised them from living in Cardiff myself. Therefore, the photos were
pleasing to look at as they were familiar because of there setting. I
enjoyed seeing all the different styles of pictures in the exhibition, and
because there were so many different types of photos, it was really interesting
to compare them all. My favourite piece in the exhibition was of 10 bottles
on a wall with a man holding one of the bottles. I liked the way the photo was
taken with the wall in the background and him holding one of the bottles
himself closer to the camera.
I think if there had been more people at the exhibition there
would have been a better atmosphere, but this was probably because the
exhibition was open all day every day for a number of weeks, so it may have
been busy at other times. When I asked others I was with their opinions they
thought the same that it was quiet but very interesting and different from
anything else they had seen before. The people who were at the exhibition
seemed to have a positive opinion and enjoyed commenting on the photos. I am hoping to go to more exhibitions
in the future, as I had never been to one before this.
Josh Harty
I went to the photo marathon
exhibition in Cardiff Story Museum on the 24th of June. The idea of the
exhibition was that the photographers only had 12 hours to take the photos.
I thought this was inspiring as the took such great photos in such a
short space of time and all the photos were so different. The thing I
enjoyed the most was that the pictures were taken locally, so I could relate to
and also recognise some of the images. My favourite piece in the
exhibition was called 'Street level' and it won first prize. This showed
an image of a local beggar who I have seen regularly around town. The
only thing I think that could have made the exhibition better is the pictures
could have been bigger, but this was probably because they had so many
interesting photos in the exhibition they could only show a lot of small ones.
Maybe they could have another exhibition with larger photos taken, by the page descriptions.
