The Shooting Gallery

The Shooting Gallery is a new show on Channel Four, on Friday nights. The show runs for an hour and looks at various different photographers and short film makers from across the world. 
On the 23th March is first episode was aired, it looked at seven different photographs that all looked at very different subjects. 
The first photographer was Irina Werning and her work 'Back to the future'. In this project Werning takes old photos and recreates them in the exact same way, the old difference is that the people in the images are older, much older - http://irinawerning.com/

The second photographer was David Gillanders, the images were complied into a short film, Called Neglected. Gillanders went underground for three years in Odessa, Ukraine, where he photographed the young children that have been orphaned and left to live off drugs as a pack. The film was heavy and highly emotional to see, children as young as eight shooting up - http://www.davidgillanders.com/

Irina Werning - Back to the Future

David Gillanders - Neglected

The third photographers that were looked at were two Japanese wedding photographers, that have changed the way that a traditional wedding photographs is made and creating  a more stylized, almost fashion wedding style.

In Focus is the next work that was focused on by Pete Eckert, a blind photographer that creates incrdibale images of light trails and the use of long exposures. The work that Eckert creates is inspiring and comfoting, that he can still create the art work that he loves - http://www.peteeckert.com/photos.php

Dark Clouds was the second short still film piece that looks the price that China is paying for it booming industry that, as Western consumers contribute to. Images were taken by Ian Teh - http://www.ianteh.com/

A life Alone is a touching film that looks at one mans tough struggle after the death of his wife. Maisie Crow photographs Tom Rose in his house alone, struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife. This was a tough watch Rose just seamed to desperate, so alone in such a big house - http://www.maisiecrow.com/content.html?page=1

Finaly the last photographer that was looked at was Noam Galai and his photo the scream. Galai posted his image of his face onto his Flicker page and with in a short amount of time his face was used on T-shirts, as graffiti art, graphic desing, magazines and book covers. While Galai knew nothing of this. The short film called 'The Stolen Scream' looks into his feelings about how his image has been used with out him ever knowing.