Photography: Matthew writtle

2. Biography
 Matt Writtle is an un-married yet taken, London-based photographer with 15 years
experience. Matt is most well-known for his feature press work although his personal
projects create a strong image
 Matt became interested in photography after his brother got a job for The Shropshire
Star in 1990. From this he became interested in his brothers work, eventually taking
a similar job with The Shropshire star in 1992.
 He has worked for most of the national newspaper groups and the Press
Association news agency. Current clients The Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph
and London Evening standard, along with a number of commercial, charitable and
PR clients.
 He has covered such news as the Asian tsunami, Darfur, the death of Princess
Diana and numerous feature essays on subjects including Muslims in Britain, as well
as daily diary work.
 Matt began his career at the Shropshire Star in 1992, moving on to the main
newspapers in both Sydney and Hong Kong. He returned to London in 2002.

3. Inspiration
The reason I have chosen to look at Matt Writtle is because, not only has he
covered many news pieces, he also has studied a documentary on
people.
Matt has looked at “Sundays” this gives him a very broad point to work from.
Within his work he has looked into events many people go through each
weekend; football, walking, picnics, beach, car boot sales and even
church!
Matt is within the minority in the photo-journalism world, as he was one of the
first to say no to on the job photography, and looked towards feature
photography. The Evening Standard is the only newspaper within London
to contract Feature photographers; so despite saying no to crazy hours
and rushed jobs, he now has to work hard to get a steady stream of work.

14. An overview
 All of Matt’s work is related to his topic, he uses
composition very well, with a very definite
foreground, middle ground and background. He also
managed to find vibrant colors from scenes that
aren't so vibrant.
 Matt has a strong view on keeping the tradition of
Britain within Britain and this is why his project
creates a shocking view of how Sundays have
changed, taking on board the fact that before 1994,
shops were not legally allowed to trade on a Sunday
and 20% of the population attended church.

15. My Project
 This project carried out by Matt Writtle, has given me the idea of studying
“the Great British weekends” This allows me to look at a broad amount of
things, and be really experimental within my work, and the subjects I
chose to photograph.
 I will look to make my photographs match the mood of the season through
colours, for example bright vibrant colours within the summer and dull
darker colours within the winter.
 I can also become more experimental with my images to create a more
British effect, one idea I have had was to Photoshop distinct parts of the
image, red, white and blue to create the colours of the union jack.
 All my information is from personal knowledge combined with his
biography, and images are from mattwrittle.com