Tony Ray-Jones

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I found this book on Tony Ray-Jones very interesting, not only because of the many images of England from the 1960's but also because it provides a great deal of insight into what Ray-Jones was thinking and his approach towards a project, in terms of planning etc. This can be seen through the various images of his notebooks and filofax pages, where it shows in detail the level of planning involved in most of his photography projects. This got me thinking as to how much I have planned throughout this project. I have set aside specific days to photograph and had a pretty good idea where I was going but apart from that I let myself be relatively free when it came to what images I wanted. The main exception was at the end of the project where I had it in my mind that I wanted an image of a west indian person in Leeds, so I made sure I returned to Chapletown to get the photo I wanted.