Social documentary 2009, by J A Mortram
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J A Mortram is our chosen photographer for this Friday's Digital Photography Now Picture of the Day. Jim Mortram currently works as a carer, but he is clearly a talented photographer and is looking to capitalise on his imaging talents. The photographic genre that Jim specialises in is social documentary photography. His pictures are powerful, if not necessarily beautiful, and he makes excellent use of monochrome to define the mood of his pictures. The image featured here is full of detail and interest. Naturally, one is drawn to the situation of the elderly gentleman that the image features. If I have one suggestion to make it's to ask for more background information about Jim's pictures, so we can understand them better.
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We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had over 13,000 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.
Picture of the month
At the end of each month we will select our favourite image of the month and declare a Picture of the Month.
The DPNow Golden Gallery
Our ultimate accolade, the DPNow Golden Gallery, is reserved for what we feel are the very finest images. We invite anyone to submit their pictures for inclusion in the Golden Gallery. Why not have a look at the Golden Gallery submission form? The vast majority are usually rejected, which is why we feel that the ones we do feature are extra special.
