Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Portraits of People Posing with Their Passions and Pastimes


This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel




Jack Daly, a photographer at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, is working on a portrait project titled People with Passions. Each photograph in the series features a person posing with the objects of their passion (e.g. things associated with their interests, pursuits, and pastimes).The portrait above is of Portsmouth resident Matt Sills, who’s passionate about photography.

Daly tells us that it started out as a small and simple idea at first:

It started small and snowballed quite quickly into a large project, where some unique and impressive people started contacting me to be involved. People seem to love the idea and the simplicity, as well as learning about the person in each shots life in one image.

Here is a selection of photos (and the captions that go with them) from the project:

Rob Daly: My brother and complete opposite. Rob is an academic that loves literature and can speak languages like no tomorrow. He could live anywhere and get away as being a local.

Thomas Kelly: Thomas has a great collection of WW2 memorabilia, and is always on the hunt for something new for his collection. What I love about his stuff is that …



By: Michael Zhang


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