LIZ HINGLEY
In 2010, Liz did a project called ‘The Jones Family’, a family with two parents and seven children and explored the meaning and experience of a family going through genuine deprivation within a considerably wealthy country. She found that for 3.9 million children across the UK are living in severe poverty.
The jones family lives in a three bedroom council house in the industrial town of Wolverhampton, this is the first house the family lived in for three generations while their parents were brought up in caravans, as were their parents. Even though they are in extreme cramped conditions, they refuse to move because of the memories the house gives them.
For me, the mise en scene really creates the atmosphere and is the strongest aspect of the composition.
Rhe cluttered work tops creates an impression of a cluttered but also laid back attitube to more main stream and house proud values such as organisation and order in the home. It could also represent their lack of control in their lives and home.
The ambient lighting of the frame is very white washed and bleak
The composition of the shot draws my attention to the floor in the frame because of how the legs frame the mess and emphasizes the little foot room on the bedroom floor and again looks at the mess and clutter of the family and lack of middle class/mainstream values of being house proud.
My favourite aspect of this shot would be the framing because of how it captures a casual moment in the families routine.
To me, this shot makes me think the message ortrayed is the simplistic needs of the family - LIke the family are able to make a home anywhere as long as they have simplistic basics (In this example - a sofa, newspaper and each other)
However, the thing that i really like about this shot is that i can personal remember sitting on a sofa like this in my garden - the cluttered mess (as well as looking disorganised) makes a more homely atmosphere.
