Angelos Tzortzinis

Before going to the event i'm going to research into one more artist who has photographed protest and conflict events, to understand another style of photography before going and taking my own images on this one day event.

Angelos Tzortzinis is a Greek documentary photographer who recently photographed the events in Crimea and Ukraine. He merged his photographs from this event together and titled it, 'The Barricade' this was because the public made this huge barricade out of what ever they could get their hands on to stop the government troops getting into the area and putting a holt to their protest. All of Tzortzinis images are taking around this Barricade over the days that is was still standing.

The scenes he photographed are very different from the ones that I have talked about in other photographers work but the techniques he uses are exactly the same. Like the other, he uses the same techniques such as taking candid photographs and also portraits, which thus gives the many photographs that capture the same event but from different angles. The candid show the greater happenings of the event and the true moments, where the portraits focus on a single individual or group for the viewer to look at.

Tzortzinis must have spent a few days documenting the event and how this was effecting the people. Because I remember that the barricade only stood for under a week before the government managed to breach it. The three photographs of his that I have chosen to look at show firstly the photographs he took to capture the general feeling of the event which show the viewer images that capture the background as well as a few subjects. This then gives the viewer an idea of what the event looked like, before just focusing on individual people.
The second image shows genuine moments from the event, which the viewer can relate to. Such as this hug I have shown, these allow the viewer to see the event from the viewpoint of the individuals that took part, and thus means the viewer feels like he's looking at real human moments, not just photographs of people  with a cause one could not relate to.
The third technique is portraits, in which the subject has full knowledge of the image taking place, this allows Tzortzinis to focus one image on a specific person who might be specifically interesting for the viewer to see. In this case it is a small child, he chose this because to the viewer, a child should be playing with his friends, not at an antigovernment protest which ended in multiple killings.

For my project I'm going to look for genuine moments that the EDL members have, to make the viewer feel like they are really people as well not just football hooligans. And also my portraits will try and focus on people who are making an obvious stand, which will be interesting for the viewer to focus their full attention to for one picture.