This is a link to Micheal Holahan's website, his fight night series is what I am inspired by most. He is an american photographer that graduated with a journalism degree. He has worked for many photo journalism agencies including The National Press Photographer's Association.
All images in this project are taken in black and white, I very much prefer documentary images in black and white, it makes audiences focus on the denotations and connotations of the image without being distracted by colour. i think that it increases integrity of the image and make is more hard hitting.
I like the style that Holahan has, in a lot of his work he makes sure that faces and emotions are shown clearly.
from both of these images and the way he has photographed emotions you get a sense of what is happening. not only that but even though they are quite simple images they both have extra interest. In the bottom image the mirrors and the reflections add interest, it makes the images more intriguing. In the top image i like the way that the image is framed by what seems to be a fighter. I like that range of tones in the image, from the white of her short to the black of the right hand corner, it all adds more to look at in the image. however what we are actually looking at are the subjects, the lady and the man, and he photographs them very simply but very effectively, the framing is effective. I want to think that he is using available light from the surroundings as in the top images you can see shadows from her fingers so there is a light whether it be fluorescent or tungsten coming in from the top right hand side. You can also see from the images on the website that he has increased his ISO grain is shown therefore i think he is using available light.
I really like the range of angles he uses in different images, it prevents the body of work from being boring and adds perspective to the images, it gives multiple representations of what the audience perceives as the same thing ( a boxing ring).
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