The recent works of Germain which iv'e been researching is the piece 'For every second you are angry you waste 60 seconds of happiness '(2005) The piece involved Germain following and documenting an elderly man who regularly attended the local football matches in Portsmouth. The work is a collaboration of photographs along side related images of certain areas and objects from inside the mans house. The piece in total was an 8 year project which when complete was shown in the Baltic center for contemporary art Gateshead. and was also published into a book which contained the images themselves alongside quotes, creating an interesting insight into a strangers life, something usually unseen.

     

Within my work this is defiantly a piece in which i would like to emulate  i find it fascinating how Germain has publicly documented a single person. His work within this piece is is one in which i fond really interesting as seen Germain didn't solely just use people or in this case the elderly man,  he also seem to concentrate on other items within the mans house such as belongings, things in which may best describe the man as a person harbouring his personality and memories, to which when viewed as the final piece give us more of an insight into the mans life than expected.