Category Archives: Reportage

Migrant Woman

04/08/2015 Bob McEvoy

‘Migrant Mother‘ was the title of a celebrated image made by Dorothea Lange in America in 1935 (or thereabouts) Lange was appalled by the poverty she found among immigrant people in rural USA. She said, (Cited on the ‘Photo-quotes’ website)

I am trying here to say something about the despised, the defeated, the alienated. About death and disaster, about the wounded, the crippled, the helpless, the rootless, the dislocated. About finality. About the last ditch.[1]

Migrant Woman - Lange — Migrant Woman – Lange

Challenged by Lange’s words, I set about creating a similar image, among the migrant community of Belfast – with less success, I found, – for some migrant people simply don’t want a camera pointed at them, even after a financial bribe. I found this old Roma woman begging in Botanic Avenue, and her pose was a reluctant one, to say the least!

Reluctant or not – she’s a pitiful sight. I hope she spent the money wisely.

[1] http://www.photoquotes.com/ShowQuotes.aspx?id=146&name=Lange,Dorothea

Co. Down, Reportage

A Different Kind of Pony! #Millisle

04/08/2015 Bob McEvoy

My visit to Newcastle, Co. Down last week produced a vintage image – a child on a little miniature pony, being gently led along the beach by the pony owner and the child’s mother – a very traditional sea-side scene.

It reminded me of another Pony on the Beach image I made around 5 years ago, when we lived at Millisle, and the beach was just across the road from our living room. It was a grainy Black and White image of a traditional ‘trotting pony’ being exercised on the sand, shot on the Nikon F100, on Ilford ISO1600 film. I looked out the negative and scanned it at 300 DPI, and here’s the result, after just a tweak or two in Photo-shop:-

I haven’t a clue who the person in the image is!

Co. Down, Reportage

Night-time Transport

26/07/2015 Bob McEvoy

Here’s my (prize-winning) shot of the Belfast-Dublin enterprise express, drawing into Newry station, one August evening in 2011. Taken as the train was still moving, Nikon D700 camera on a tripod.

News and Commentary, Reportage

Folicularly-enhanced Orangemen!

24/07/2015 Bob McEvoy

I couldn’t resist this shot.

Walking away from a parade I noticed this gentleman walking in front of me. The look (even from behind) is so incongruous, that it was begging for a photograph. The media and popular perception of members of the Orange Order is as stuffy, staid, conservative, old men. This man just blows those impressions right out of the water!