The Masai typology
The Masai typology is an open-ended project that started on my last trip to Tanzania 6 months ago.
Inspired by the work of August Sander (“the people of 20th century”) as well as the work of Walker Evans (FSA-Great depression), the project is a typological approach targeted to record a collective portrait of the Masai inhabitants of the Ngorongoro crater.
Few words for Typology
Typology is the study of types, and a photographic typology is a suite of images or related forms, shot in a consistent, repetitive manner; to be fully understood, the images must be viewed as a complete series.
The term can be used both descriptively, summarizing a group of images in retrospect, and predictably, anticipating the style a given artist will employ to record a particular subject. Furthermore, it can, by extrapolating from earlier photographs, signal a type of subject matter that a given artist would be likely to portray. Broadly speaking, typological photographs are identified by an empirical, straight-forward appearance, with great detail and clarity in the prints. They are often displayed or reproduced in series; one important element of a typological project is its open-ended quality of comparative investigation.
Some more words for the typology of Sander and Evans
The typology of Evans and Sander are united in their apparent insistence on the predominance of subject matter as the principle cause for making a photograph, and the creation of straight, unmanipulated photographs to record and convey their impressions.
You can visit my portfolio http://www.nicolaslotsos.com to see the images of this project
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