While generally I am not a huge fan of party pictures, this project is quirky, fun, and hilarious. Dakowicz is an outsider to these images of Welsh party life in the city of Cardiff. While his motives may be brought into questions one thing is for sure, Welsh women sure look like they should lay off the fast food along with the massive amounts of beer. This work has received a decent amount of press recently. The main article in the Daily Mail can be read here.
After looking at all of Dakowicz's work, my main question was, "Is he a good photographer, or did he simply find a fascinating subject?" Plainly, I just don't know. Many of the images on his site are boring beyond their beauty. They are travel photography with nothing to think about after looking at the image. This image, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (down the street from my house) is a great example of what I am describing.
Others from the travel series contradict my previous statements.
Dakowicz's problem is his editing. Many of the images on his site need to be scaled back. He is a talented man but perhaps the reason his images of binge drinking in Cardiff hit a home run is because of his familiarity with the subject. Dakowicz lives in Cardiff and even though he says that he started photographing these drinkers because of their alien appeal, the time he put into this study clearly shows.
While other image catagories look like a week long holiday trip, binge drinking in Cardiff proves what can happen when time is put into a great project.
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