Clare Gallagher is a photography from Northern Ireland. She studied photography in London, Canterbury and Belfast and is also a photography lecturer since 2003. Her series on 'domestic drift' examines and explores the ordinary everyday, which focuses on life at home. She particularly takes photos of children and aims to show the domestic side of life at home with kids. She also investigates the innocent side of children and how they explore the outside world from the inside of their own home. Her photos also show the learning involved and how a child develops and learns new things every day by just being around different people and finding new things around their home. Her photos show the imagination children have that encourages their exploration of the outside world. Mostly,she captures the innocent relationships between children and the home. Clare Gallagher did these images to show the innocence of not only her own children but children of that age and how the ages of people can depict a certain level of vulnerability and innocence.This links to my family project as it gives another way of photographing the family; through the eyes of our children.
Clare Gallaghers work focuses on creating innocence and imagination through taking photos of young children. The simplicity of this image and many of her other images in this series portrays the candid and natural personalities of children. This image is taken from looking up at a child sat on a chair at a table. The picture shows the age of the subject as the child's feet are dangling from the height of the chair in composition to the height of the person. The image is taken from underneath the table and the blurred feet of another child's feet are in the distance. Although the image is dark due to the viewpoint the colours from the socks brighten the image and also show the naivety and innocence from a child's point of view. Furthermore innocence is enhanced and emphasised by the odd socks the child is wearing. Her work aims to show the portrayal of innocence within every day family life at home and the exploration of the younger generation within their natural surroundings.
I wanted to develop looking at the candid side of family photography further. I chose to do this by responding to Clare Gallagher's work. She took photos of her children looking to portray the mind of a child, for example the exploration and the adventures even the simplest of tasks can be for a child. I developed this idea by taking photos of my nephew's features very close up. This emphasises the innocence of a new born and also it enhances my idea of showing generations through photography as it shows how the family grows and how new additions continue the old traditions and routines older members have started. It also portrays how a new member of the family effects the other people in the family and how they adapt to a new person added to the family tree, which also develops on my responses to Jaret Belliveau.
I then wanted to further develop my outcomes by enhances the idea of innocence within the family. I did this by photographing my nephew in places that make him look innocent or places that are usually for people older or bigger. This enhances the innocence as it puts someone so tiny and fragile into a surrounding that is so different and unfamiliar for their age and size. I did this by putting him in the middle of a double bed to show the contrast between the size of him and the size of his surroundings It also brings in the idea of generations, as I also photographed him with his Grandad and Grandma; the idea that new generations and additions have an impact on the rest of the current family and often changes that they all have to adapt to.
In these images I wanted to develop the initial idea from Clare Gallagher. She took photos from the eyes of her children. I wanted to show this innocence by portraying how small and dependent on others babies are and how that effects the rest of the family. For the photo above it shows the innocence of the child due to the fact that he is so much smaller than the rest of the family.
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