John decker

Josh Decker, went to Ohio university to study photo communications in 1993. Decker is an award winning photojournalist and photographer with more than 20 years of experience documenting photographically. After looking into Deckers work, he focuses on peoples lives and captures a lot of portraits of people working, wondering the streets and the homeless. What i like about his work is the he gets very close to his subjects and his photos seem very ‘genuine’ as in not staged. His work ‘Carnie’, where he followed a carnival round for a couple of weeks photographing their everyday  life and public engagement is amazing and the images really make me feel the type of dirty and loud environment he was working in. He uses a variety of techniques, slow shutter speeds to capture the motion of the rides, wide apertures which results in bokeh as there are a lot of lights at the carnival. he also has used fill-in in flash in on of his images of the workers.