Daniella Zalcman Analysis.

Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese American documentary photographer from Paris, France and New York, United States of America whose photographic work focuses a lot on documenting various urban and rural landscapes and the human impact on these landscapes as well as the use of the formal elements of lighting, colour and compositions. For this artist analysis, I will be specifically looking at her landscape photographs in response to the theme of 'Society' for this project. I decided to research the work of Daniella Zalcman in relation to this theme as I intend to take a series of photographs that document the urban society that I live in and around - such as Croydon, Kingston and London - and the impact that we have on our society such as graffiti, street art, homelessness and the general lack of care that we show our society and the environments that we live in as well as the constant changes that we are making to them. This is something that I felt inspired by whilst researching and analysing the work of Daniella Zalcman as I really like the gritty style her photographs gain through the use of the double exposure technique which she uses to compare and contrast the cityscapes of New York and Paris and it could therefore be a editing technique that I take inspiration from and reference within my own photographic responses to this project.

Many of Daniella Zalcman's photographs are kept central using the rules of thirds and long distance
shot angles in order to document her urban and rural landscapes and the impact that we have on our society. Since Daniella Zalcman's work is based on creating a series of landscape based photographs of rural and urban societies that may or may not have been affected by human life and nature, the artist takes a lot of photographs of these environments to capture the natural and man-made beauty of them as well as comparing the similarities and differences of the two different cityscapes that she has double exposed within her photographs.

A lot of the photographs that Daniella Zalcman has taken in order to create her project are based around various rural and urban landscapes and the natural beauty of the landscape that she is documenting within her work. She often focuses a lot of her photographic work on the uses of natural lighting, colours and leading line compositions within her photographs, creating a stark contrast between the two different city landscapes that she

double exposes into on image, using roads and pavements to draw her target audience's attention to the different angles and structures of the landscapes within the photographs she takes. This in turn creates a leading line of view within her photographs as the target audience's attention is instantly drawn to the leading line created by the road, pavements or river of water dissecting the centre of her photographs, leading their attention from the foreground of the image further into the background to draw attention to the contrast she is trying to create from the two cities. This is something that I could potentially take inspiration from within my own landscape photographic work responding to the theme of 'Society' by adding a leading line of focus within my own photographs that could draw the attention of my own target audience into the landscape and society that I will be documenting within my work.

Within my own photographic response I have decided to take a series of landscape photographs that will document the theme of 'Society' by photographing the different urban environments of Croydon, Kingston and London and the damages and lack of care that humans have for their own society within my photographs, focusing on the grit and grime that the city and town landscapes may have such as graffiti, street art, homelessness and damages to buildings and the like as well as the changes that we are often making to our own society such as construction sites and the demolishment of buildings.