Assignment 3 - Umberto Verdoliva Street Photographer

All of Umberto Verdoliva’s work is in black and white and I love black and white photographs because I think they look really stylish and classy. They look sophisticated. Umberto Verdoliva uses a lot of shadows in his work to create unusual images and shapes.

Umberto tends to photograph unusual objects and a lot of close up photographs to really try to trick the mind of his audience. Each photo is so creative and imaginative, you can see that a lot of thought has gone into creating each photo.

Verdoliva seems to like using layers in some of his photos and semi-transparent images to create a really unique effect. I think this is really creative and it looks great. Also, he tends to make quite a lot of his work, blurred in some parts, to bring focus to the important focal points of the photograph.

I chose to look at Umberto Verdoliva because of a lot of different reasons, one being his use of black and white. I also love the way he uses shadows in his photgraphs to create different shapes and patterns, I think he is very imaginative.

I love the way Umberto Verdoliva is so random with his work, he photographs really simple everyday objects but in a really interesting way using shadows and blurred and softened effects. On the other hand, he creates really unique and unusual layered image photographs and puts lots of different photographs on top of one another but makes them slightly transparent so that you have lots and lots going on in the one photo that is made up of all the different other photos.