Fallen Leaf

A Photogram of a leaf I picked up on my way into University. I love the Autumn season, when all the leaves change colour to beautiful reds, oranges and yellows, so I thought this red leaf was a perfect way to capture the Autumn feeling.

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Daniel Gustav Cramer's "The Trilogy"

Just one word... Breathtaking

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

I have always admired Noble and Webster, there contemporary work is so imaginative and creative but I particularly adore their sculptures made from rubbish that they then project onto to a wall, showing that the rubbish piles are actually made to look like silhouettes of people.

The fact they can make such beautiful installations from discarded rubbish is amazing, the sculptures must take so much time and the result is breathtaking and so clever, especially when you get to see them up close.

Recently I saw one they had created to form the silhouette of a famous image of Isabelle Blow's head. Within the rubbish they used to form the silhouette, contained one of her favourite shoes and lipstick shade, making it that little bit more personal to Blow herself.

I adore this work, and I hope you like it too!


Isabella Blow's Head


Dirty White Trash


El / Ella


Miss Understood & Mr Meanor

Walker's Homage to Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russe

I think we are all agreed that Tim Walker is one of the most imaginative, creative and fabulous fashion photographer out there, and his new shoot "Russian Dolls" for Vogue's October issue does not disappoint, in fact I believe it is one of his best yet.

The shoot is a homage to Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and helps advertise the V&A's current exhibition displaying some of the remaining costumes, illustrations, music and set designs associated with the company (the exhibition runs until Jan 9th 2011, SEE IT NOW!) Walkers images are beautiful, provocative and succeed in capturing the shows unique, breathtaking style. Diaghilev is an inspiration to many designers, artists and composers and Tim Walker's photographs definitely succeed in reaching the standard of this amazing vision.

Moving Portrait

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"The Whole Night Became My Darkroom"

Susan Derges is one of my favourtie photographers. Now a master at the Photogram she began with just an idea, to capture water at night time on photograph paper using no camera and just a flashlight to expose, "Going out the first time I did not quite know what I was doing." armed only with rolls of photographic paper and a torch, she headed to the river and suspended the paper into the water, exposing it with the flashlight for a tiny amount of time (about a millisecond). Whilst she probably had more failures at first than triumphs, eventually she got the concept down to a fine technique and achieved some stunning images, eventually moving on to using the same technique for forest flowers and trees. The images she recorded are absolutely gorgeous, some of the most beautiful pictures I have seen. The "Shoreline" series are stunning, with amazing colours and textures and it is hard to believe that for the forest images no camera was used.

Derges is an inspiration to all budding photographers. She got an idea and even though she didn't fully understand how to do it, she experimented and came out with some wonderfully sublime images! I hope you like them as much as I do!

Water Images








Forest Images

A Natural Dump

Living in England we are surrounded by beautiful country sides. Unfortunately much of it is ruined by humans dumping rubbish, too lazy to find a near by bin. We were given a project that we had to base on a piece of map randomly chosen, mine was a park, so to gain inspiration I went and just snapped away. What emerged were beautiful greenery images ruined by rubbish being dumped. I did not want to just photograph rubbish in an obvious Greenpeace type fashion, instead I wanted my project to be much subtler. Thus using my flash I photographed the beautiful nature with a flash gun, and had the piece of garbage hidden, out of focus, barely seen in the photograph so you really had to look to see they aren't just nice pretty nature photographs. I have carried on with this project, photographing rubbish found in beautiful places whenever I see them.

Please don't think me some crazy "save the world" protester, but I do believe we have a major problem of littering these beautiful, natural places. I loved hearing the story about one man who wanted to point out our ignorance over littering, he threw trash out of his parked car in busy places, most people walked past not noticing or ignoring him untill finally one man picked it up and threw it back in his car promptly running off. When they finally caught up with him and asked why he ran off he stated "I suddenly realised what I had done and was scared you would get out the car and beat me up" however I feel more people should be "throwing it back" instinctively.

I want to show this problem in a less "in your face way" than most. I wanted the images to be beautiful with just the hint of man made garbage. As I gain more images I will put new posts up, but for now I hope you like the few I have taken.

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