Melanie Manchot cyprus street

Whitechapel Gallery





Artist Melanie Manchot creates and documents her own 21st century street party. presents the first part of her new project ‘Celebration,’ commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella. The exhibition brings together archive material portraying the rich history of public street celebrations in London’s East End, forming a poignant commentary on the changing demographics and social climate of east London’s communities. These documents form the basis for a major new film, which will depict the construction of a group portrait that takes an east London residential street as its setting and involves its residents as active participants. Capturing the persons best facial features and creates beautiful photos that have a lot of truth in them in the shot and the way subjects in the frame. The way she used the light in her shooting had a nice stand positioned above and next to the model's head, with the light pointing as close to straight down as she could, in order to catch the highlights of the hair. Using the street and the people in East London to document the event and display it at the gallery as that I was with them in a very move. Showing the multicultural community how happy and friendly they are, the colors and sun shine in the images makes me feel worm.

reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSyqm2tt1I0
http://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/details/celebration/