Recently been suffering quite bad with insomnia due to medication I am taking. While sitting up on one of my very late nights started thinking about other people that are awake while most people are sleeping. There seems to be this whole world that exists outside the normal world that only ever sees black skies and a white sun. I decided to look at ways I could approach this through my photography, what is it that makes people become nocturnal? Some do it out of necessity others, like myself, have no choice in the matter. To start with I decided to look at those that do it out of necessity by spending a few nights with people that work the night shift in a big supermarket. While I have a broad selection of shots I am unsure of how to approach the treatment of them so this is what I would really appreciate feedback on. These are just a few of the images, click to view larger.
I did find that due to the monotony of the work that a lot of the images were repeating themselves as everyone was pretty much doing the same thing. The thing I am looking at most of all with this work is the people so I decided to shoot a series of portraits of each of the night workers as another possibility of where this work could go. Again these are just a few of the portraits.
Time to hunt down some insomniacs!!!! If anyone knows any please put me in touch with them!
That is a genuinley hard project to approach i think, because obviously thye do similar things to the daytime people just at night so without a full moon or something I suppose it would be hard, especially indoors. The only thing that springs to mind would be to shoot in colour? show the colour and quality of the flurescent lighting but thats still pretty much square one,the only other thing I can think of is to maybe include a clock in the background or something for the leading shot or something. Only thing that does spring to mind is you could do a Joseph Koudelka style shot (the one with the tanks rolling in and a bystander holding his watch up) but with the portraits with someone holding a watch up to show the time, may be an awful idea but its too early for me to think right
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