Cloth of Gold
Richard Cloudesley school and
the Barbican Centre ICT Project
Visit to the Exhibition
The second week we went to the "Africa by Africa: A Photographic View" exhibition at the Barbican Centre. This exhibition brings together a selection of work by some of the most significant sub-Saharan African photographers of the twentieth century.
"I liked it when we went to the exhibition. I liked the picture of the two babies and I liked the man and woman on the motorbike, when one sits on the front and one sits on the back, they looked young." Dana
"Some people made their houses out of old rubbish that they got from the scrap yard. There was a picture of two policemen and two men that were hiding from the police ... I liked that. It's strange to see this. They were hiding from the police because they didn't have a passport. Some looked bored (earlier black and white photographs). Some people were adventurous - playing the piano - you have to be adventurous to play the piano to get ideas in your head." Julian
We concentrated
on photographs with different backgrounds and looked at the poses, clothes and props used by people in front of the camera."Some backgrounds were plain white, some were painted, some were sheets of fabric, velvet with big patterns." Julian
"I liked the way the people were posing and I liked the patterns and the different colours of the ladies dresses. The plain photos (close-ups with plain backgrounds) were a bit scary, I didn't like them very much. I really liked the photo of the twin babies, they looked really good." Lee
"Some photographs were very scary (close-ups with plain backgrounds). Some photographs were happy. I thought when babies and small children were in the photographs that they looked so pretty. Some of the people looked confused. I would like to be in the photo with the lady playing the organ as I love music myself." Rebecca
We were particularly influenced by the work of Philip Kwame Apagya
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