John MacLean: Neighbourhood

With this project John MacLean gave himself the limitation of only shooting in the area around where he lived in Tooting Bec, south-west London. All of the photographs were taken between 1st March 2008 and 24th May 2009. This idea really appeals to me because I often like to go out with no preconceived idea of what I am going to take photographs of, instead just take a walk around an area and see what takes your eye. In most cases you get a lot of rubbish but then you uncover a diamond in the rough and that one image can make it all worth while. I think that this project was posed as more of a challenge for john as he wanted to see what he could get photography wise out of his local area when he has applied his own limitations. I think there are some really nice images in the project but I mainly related to this project because of the philosophy behind it and the photographers approach, and it is one that really appeals to me.