For one of my projects I was told to look at a book relating to animals and chose to look at Michael Poliza's Essential Africa.
Within the book Essential Africa Michael Poliza a photographer who introduced Germany to the digital world goes onto a journey of discovering a wonderful country and its amazing wildlife some of his great photographic work can be seen in this book using his unique approach to the wildlife. An example of this is of a close up image of a Lion even though he broke the rules by not showing the lions eye the image itself shows the detail of each strand of hair on the Lions face.
What Michael Poliza did is stand out by taking something which has been seen before but completely changing the way it is viewed by using different angles and focusing the camera on different areas of the subject itself.
I believe that every photographer should have there own unique style to there work and Michael Poliza shows this throughout the book and not only does he do this with the animals but also the landscape in which he is in.
"Africa is unlikely to change the way you think about Africa. But it might change the way you think about photography" This is written on the back of the book which really stood out to me because photography isnt always about what you see its about what you can create and I am a strong believer that this is one of the most important aspects of photography itself to create something unique. Sometimes breaking the rules is not a bad thing it is something which will show someone a different viewpoint to a particular subject which shows us that not everyone is the same and every picture is different because they are all unique in its own way.
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