Jim Goldberg is an american photo journalist concerned with bringing the story of individual everyday people from varying social and cultural backgrounds to the attention of other everyday people, such as you or I. He very effectively voices the real life experiences, thoughts and intimate feelings of what would otherwise be yet another photographic subject, presented without a tangible context. His work provides us with an extraordinary opportunity for insight, bringing us closer together as people... a very admirable pursuit i would hasten to add...


Ok so this guy is AMAZING. He pretty much sums up everything i said in my previous run riot blog post. First he lets you see a world through your own eyes, let's say a stranger in their home, and then he shows you that world through that stranger's eyes, and their perspective, whether familiar or not, suddenly becomes personal to you. His approach is so simple, using intimate stories, anecdotes, reflections, but what he reveals is a picture of someone's life that you can actually 'feel'. I love these stories, little windows into other peoples lives, intimate encounters, nuggets of meaning. They take you out of yourself, they transport you, they open you up to new perspectives.








Jim Goldberg had a recent show called OPEN SEE at The Photographers Gallery in London.


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