Cinematography: original photographs by Nick Turpin

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Everyone can feel like a character in a real movie (and, believe me, this is not a video camera advertisement). English photographer Nick Turpin has launched an interesting project: the master's original photographs are disguised as ordinary print screens - screen shots of a movie. It would seem that everything important should be in the center of the frame, and the frame of the portrait should be nothing. Nick Turpin disagrees. The narrow film and black stripes on the top and bottom do the trick for a new artistic effect.

Photographer Nick Turpin, 42, lives and works in London. In his youth he received two educations: in the specialties "Art and Design" and "Photography and Cinematography". For 7 years he worked for the newspaper The Independent, then went into the advertising business and design. In addition, he is engaged in street photography, which he can talk about for hours: at lectures and at home.

According to Nick Turpin, street photography is not just a photo taken on the street. This is a still from a movie that you will never see again, although you pass by the same scenery every day. But every day the script, the cast (passers-by), the mood of the director (that is, you) change. But what can I say: even dripping rain completely changes the mise-en-scene.

Nick Turpin says that for him photographs taken on the streets of the city on a typical working afternoon are as important and interesting as photographs of historical meetings or natural disasters. The small story that ordinary people make outside the window is worth a big one. It is not without reason that books about private life in a certain era are so popular now. In addition, catching a good shot in the bustle of the city, he said, is like "finding a needle in a four-dimensional haystack."

No wonder Nick Turpin studied photography and cinematography in his youth. Now he unites these areas of creativity. Thanks to the black stripes that frame the image, each photo is not perceived as a unique one. She becomes one of the thousands of frames that make up the film. Each of Nick Turpin's original photographs is a small scene, a tiny plot element.

And as soon as we are talking about the plot, the thought comes about what will happen to the hero or heroine, who they are, what is the genre of the film, a fragment of which we see, and who it is in the background (perhaps it is also important for the plot). A lot of questions, a lot of thought. Nick Turpin's original photographs awaken the imagination, and it's just a matter of special optics.