N.McD. - Shoreditch High Street London
(2008)

Le vide-grenier du dimanche. Deux clichés du photographe écossais Niall McDiarmid (b.1967), que j'ai découvert  avec "Crossing paths, a portrait of Britain", une compilation publiée en 2013 de portraits réalisés dans plus de 120 villes anglaises, écossaises et galloises, où McDiarmid se concentre sur la diversité ethnique et sociale du Royaume Uni. À la fois œuvre d'art et témoignage social, sa photographie de rue reflète les réalités contemporaines britanniques et révèle la diversité humaine à travers des compositions pleines de couleurs et de sensibilité (voir ICI). Il cite, parmi ses influences, Diane Arbus, Joël Sternberg (l'auteur de l'emblématique American Prospects) ou encore le britannique Daniel Meadows.

N.McD. - Summerstown (2017)

I'm interested in changing population, changing communities, and multiculturalism so, yes, the people in my worl are diverse. I am very interested in the idea of a large body of work that covers the whole country in an uncomplicated, democratic look at people at this time. I'm very interested in colour and shape and how it is present in our everyday life even though we often don't notice it.

When I started the recent batch of portraits back in 2011, I didn't have the untention of using colours as a base for the work. However, after a few weeks, I realized that it was something I had an eye for. I began to see the way people's clothing often matched or clashed whith the colours that I found on high street shops or billboards and I tried where I could to combine these.