Liu Bolin - Modern Artist Inspiring The Advertising World

Liu Bolin has produced some more great self-portraits for the series Hidden Cities. The latest work brought back an advertising campaign that I had seen around London either early last year or the year before. The series stood out to me because the reference to Liu Bolin series of work. I only knew this because of being at university at the time and stumbling upon him during research for a project I had in mind (which never materialized in the end), the series I felt was a great way to advertise The Prince's Trust help to the young, with a tag-line "Lost Generation" and from afar an urban landscape image that when viewed  more closely you start to see this lost, invisible and upset individual materialize in front of you. When looking for this series I stumbled across a large amount of ad campaigns that have taken direct influence from Liu Bolin, from sports to alcohol and as mentioned the lost generation. With all the campaigns that I have found none have used Liu Bolin himself to create them, except one from Ford, which has a great post on Liu Bolin and how he goes about creating these great pieces of Modern Art.

6th Rifles

These are some of the portraits from my latest project yet to be titled but this section is called 6th Rifles. The project will go beyond just the 6th Rifles and explore other British Armed Forces Regiment and Corps. Once I have settled down in London I plain on starting the next part of the project. So keep an eye out for the next update.

Old Boy - Screen Shots

Here are some work-in-progress screen shots from my latest university project, Old Boy. I am currently editing three clubs and societies I photographed looking at typology with in groups.

 

Poole Radio Yacht Club

 Battle Group South

 Netley Slot Car Club

Occupy London Stock Exchange

Occupy Wall Street is a demonstration, sit in and protest against the corporations, banks and governments that have been a major part in this economical crisis that has led to millions of people, world wide being jobless, homeless and feeling the strain of the financial meltdown. All the while the 1% have still managed to walk around with millions of pounds, dollars and euros in their own pockets, the 99% are struggling in this situation. The events that took place in New York City over a month ago, has spread across the world. Thousands of people have taken to the streets to show their support for Occupy Wall Street and to protest for their rights and to help make a change that many people feel the 99% deserve. 

The other week I went back to London for a few days and decided to pop along to the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp at St. Paul’s. I didn't take many photographs as I was just wanted to see this event for myself and take in the atmosphere. Here are two photographs that I shot on the day using a Bronica SQA. I plan on going back up to London when I get some free time and continue taking some more portraits of the protesters, and maybe creating a mini-project of this event in London.

Welcome

After neglecting my other weblog for sometime now and wanting to re-invent my the old one, I introduce you to my new blog that is nicely titled Matthew Walden The Blog. 

To get things started I thought I would first introduce myself, I am a photographer in training, currently into political, economical and environmental documentary and portraiture photography.

This weblog is going to be a little bit different from the other weblog I produced, it will have less inspirational work, but will have more written work and my own work and projects.

Below are some of my work, just a teaser of what I shoot, which you can find the rest of clicking the first photograph below.