Julian Germain

Julian Germain studied photography in nottingham trent and the college of arts in london, he has published a few books and he is also on the editorial board for a magazine called "useful information"

julian Germain doesn't just use his own photographs in his books and projects he uses historical images and pictures from a variety of different sources. in his books and projects he uses themes that run through several of them such as "for every minute that you are angry you loose 60 seconds of happiness" and his project "the running line" these both reflect julian's belief in the value of amateur and functional images.

he has also done projects with brazilian artists which all the proceeds from the projects have gone to building things such as a library to improve the towns, he did this because he had been working with the street children letting them actually produce the imagery. so the children could see the work that they had done there work got shown to the public through posters and free newspapers.

i really like his work especially the work that he has done in the poorer parts of the world, i particularly like the image above with the people playing football in the back ground and the sun and the clouds making a sort of boarder around the image. i think this makes his photograph very affective. i also like how it shows that this is a poor country because in the image second above they literally have nothing just each other. i like work that shows the rest of the world whats going on. 

he displays his work on street walls and newspaper and magazines etc. he presents his work very well 

all of his work seems to have a purpose behind it i think this artist because he doesn't just make good work but he also shares the experience with the less fortunate and gives them a chance to make there own photographs.