Adam Patterson is a photographer and filmmaker based in Belfast who works globally for a range of international companies and clients. He has completed multiple projects on different themes, that he responds to in a documentary format, whether that be in film or photographic mediums.
'Another Lost Child' is a project he began after being impacted by the amount of teenage gun and knife crime in London 2008. Patterson felt it was important to find some of these young people and offer them a chance to voice themselves through visuals, text and moving image. While completing the series he met a man called Jean-Claude, who had the street name 'Vipoh'. The two became friends and Patterson made visits back to London to meet up with Jean-Claude to carry on documenting his life as he moved away from the gangs and into married life between the years of 2008-13. All of his images are portrait based, allowing the viewer to understand that the series is about the people involved instead of the place. I find his images really emotive, especially the one of Jean-Claude and his son. I think this is from the moment being very natural and it makes the viewer think about family life, which is completely opposite to gang orientated photos at the start of the project.
His style of work could be connected to either ideas on gangs or community because his style of documenting the subjects could be applied in both cases, because at the start he focused on gang culture but then moved more onto more family based work which could connect stronger to documenting the family based community.
