In this Series called The Ridley Road Portrait Project by Kate Peters. She Photographs Tradespeople in Ridley Road Market, Hackney. Peters celebrates the diversity and Multiculturalism in 21st century London. With her photographs she tries to create a lasting documentation of the Market through her Portraiture in wake of the dying high-street small traders and traditional markets disappearing in favour of chained stores and Supermarkets.
In terms of Composition the work is very central in all of the pieces in this series. The viewer's eye is immediately drawn to choice of using props because the colours of the props stands out from the neutral backdrop and the clothing worn by the subjects. I think the use of props adds a deceiving element to the photographs because without reading the story that is provided below the image a stereotypical assumption is made without looking into the context behind the images. The gaze of the subjects in the majority of this series is off camera an interesting choice made by Peters because this could be a metaphor for the loss of small independent shops in Ridley Road Market. The lighting is quite harsh in this series which I am not too keen on because it makes the photographs look like cut outs.
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