1. Themes for Photography
Portfolio
City & Guilds

2. People and Portraits

3. Formal Portraits
• Studio setting
• Follows
conventions of
portraiture
• Use of standard
lighting
Daguerre -

4. • Can include self portraits Robert Mapplethorpe
• Issues of identity arise Martin Schoeller

5. Informal Portraits
• Non studio setting
• Not following
conventions of
portraiture
• Not always
‘perfect’ images
Bill Brandt - Portrait of Francis Bacon

6. Edward Steichen’s
Alex Majoli

7. Environmental Portraits
• Seeks to
categorise by job
type and
sometimes person
type, including
class, gender etc
Hill and Adamson

8. August Sander
Robert Capa
Paul Strand

9. Built Environment

10. Andres Gursky

11. Paul Strand

12. Ansel Adams

14. Still Life

15. Immogen Cunningham

16. Edward weston

17. William Eggleston

18. Irving Penn

20. Nature

21. •Conventional
landscapes
following art
conventions
•Rule of thirds
•vanishing Point

22. Gustav le Gray

23. Edward Steiglitz
Martine Frank

24. Ansel Adams

25. Ernst Haast

26. Reportage

27. Saiful Huq Omi
The Disowned and Denied
For decades, the xenophobic, Burmese military
junta has refused to recognize the Rohingya as a
distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western
Burma. Internationally, their story is under
reported. The Rohingya are probably the most
voiceless and stateless refugee community in
the world

28. Jürgen Bodamer
Galways fishing
By 1970 only two boats remained, whereas
eye witnesses report that they have seen
20 boats in the harbour of Inis Mór, the
biggest of the three Árainn Islands and 35
boats sailing out of Conamara