This task asked us to choose four images from decaptioned photos and to assess what is happening in each. The four I chose really spoke to me about what was happening in each and As a self confessed Candid and Street Photography nut I spend a lot of my time behind the lense in the street watching people and wondering what they’re thinking what they’re doing and where they’re going in such a rush and also the things the eye overlooks and doesn’t like to see such as abandoned alleys underpasses and the homeless, so this task was a fun one for me. 

Deportment Class

When I was a teenager in the late 80’s and early 90‘s deportment classes were still a thing for young ladies to do as we’re debutant balls….I did neither of these things mind you but had many friends that went to The June Dally-Watkins Finishing School and fussed over elaborate white dresses. At this time of life I was heavily into sneaking into clubs underage to drink and mosh with like minded grunge and metal heads or suffering alcoholic poisoning in a field away from a bonfire party, however I digress and the image suggests using rolled up towels or small rugs to improve posture and the items set out in front of each woman are classic beauty items like mirrors and cosmetic, and possibly notes on etiquette.

Environmental Disaster

Initially this image made me think of a crime scene ,but as I took a closer look at The tented area I could see there were a lot of plastic bags and the man in the foreground of the shot is taking a photo of sand which makes me feel it has more to do with an environmental disaster of some kind. 

Doomsday

This image immediately gave me a sense of preparedness for doomsday, as I looked at the image more closely, I noticed the box office movie and the vehicles and deduced it must have something to do with the 1950’s Cuban Missile Crisis in the United States of America and that they were wearing radiation covers to protect them from supposed nuclear rain fallout.  As it happens it did not  come to pass but the terror must have been very real and the image conveys the mood of the time.

Quarrentine

This image struck me as airline passengers either boarded on a flight or about to board being checked by quarantine officers due to the hazmat /biohazard  outfits and the infrared thermometer being focused on the child in the woman’s arms in the rear of the shot. As a Street Photographer I spend a lot of time watching people and as a mother of a child with a chronic illness and no immunity due to medications we spend a lot of time monitoring disease outbreaks as to whether or not she should be excluded from school or time in hospital for her illness. It gives me a kind of invaded and clinical feel