Ian Macdonald

Born in North Yorkshire, Ian Macdonald documented the industrial River Tees, it is said his work is ‘rich and extensive’. His documentart work from the 1970′s and 80′s have appeared in the popular Side Gallery in Newcastle. These works include; ‘Greatham Creek’, ‘ The Tees Estuary’ amd ‘Quoits’.

Ian also lived as part of the Eton College Community in 200-2007, as part of Ian being there, he was a teacher whilst making a documentart of his expering in that environment.

Ian had visited the college on two occasion and has given us a lecture on his work and his documentary projects throughout the years. The first time he came to the college I remember him talking about his visit to Eton as he had just finished his year there.

I really like Ian’s work from Eton, it had a mixture of portraits and details of the college. Fromw hat i remember Ian saying he has over 3,000 images to edit into a book. The book that he has published contained 48 images, I cannot imagine having to edit such a best amount of images into such a small amount.

What I like about Ian’s work is that he really does connect with the places he photographs. It may help that the documentaries he has done are all on his home teritory, but I feel that you can really connect with his images, some of them seeming almost romantic.

From looking at Ian’s work I would liketo get a similar connection with my images. I want to take in my surrounds, taking in the great detail and also the people living in the area.

I would like my project to have great depth and meaning also.

Heres some images of Ian’s that I really like of Ian’s;

Tees Estuary