Julian Germain

He became interested in photography at school. He went on to study it at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham and the Royal College of Art in London.

Jullian made a book in 2005 called “for every minuets you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness” which contains a series of images taken over 8 years of an elderly man named Charles Snelling from Portsmouth.  ‘I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April, 1992. He lived in a typical two up two down terraced house amongst many other two up two down terraced houses… It was yellow and orange. In that respect it was totally different from every other house on the street…. ….Charlie was a simple, gentle, man. He loved flowers and the names of flowers. He loved colour and surrounded himself with colour. He loved his wife. Without ever trying or intending to, he showed me that the most important things in life cost nothing at all. He was my antidote to modern living.’ (Taken from, http://www.juliangermain.com/projects/foreveryminute.php)

I like these photos because they are very simple but they tell you a lot about Charlie and what he enjoys doing just from theses few photos.

These photos are from a project called Found a still life project about objects he has found or people have left behind