Jeff Wall is a well known photographer. His style of working is to document fictional situations by creating fictional events in time. Wall uses techniques such as actors and specialist props to create his scenes. Wall’s early work was based on mimicking seemingly everyday encounters on the street, he claimed that real life documentary photography was too challenging and time consuming, so the entirety of Wall’s photographs are especially cast even down to the clothes the models are wearing in the photographs. Later in Wall’s career he took is photography to the next level, thinking up crazy scenes and ideas for his photographs.

Wall started to create famous pieces such as, the man with the light bulbs, a sudden gust of wind and a re-creation of a war scene. Personally I think Jeff Walls work really elevated my opinion when he started to create crazy sets and scenes, he makes the audience ask more questions with his later work, why has it been arranged like that? what is the meaning behind the photograph? the reason I include Jeff Wall in my research is because I think he is good inspiration If I chose to go down the route of documenting reality. Wall as a photographer inspires me to create stores and scenes in my head and make them come to life using what I have available to me at the time.

I  especially like this piece by Jeff Wall because of the set design involved, it makes me as an audience question what is happing in the photograph and why Wall has arrange the photograph in this particular way? I love the colour palette in this photograph I think the shades of brown and yellow blend well together and help highlight the light bulbs submerging the celling. I would like to create this level of mystery and wildness in my photographs despite them being documentation reality or documentation fiction.