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Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Schilte & Portielje
Well it was that time of the year when I jump on to the Eurostar and journey to Paris for Paris Photo weekend. It was held in the Grand Palais this year and I thought it was the best one yet (well out of the three I have seen).
Whilst I could talk about the many beautiful photographers I saw there I want to mainly focus on the works by Schilte and Portielje, who I saw at the Kahmann Gallery stand. I had never heard of the photographers before but fell head over heels in love with their work. The dark black and white portraits were so beautiful, photography and styling wise. They have really inspired me with my project dealing with identity or lack of it and got me straight to experimenting with long exposures. I am absolutely blown away by their photographs and hope you feel the same. So here are a few of my favourites that I saw... I know you'll love them too!
Whilst I could talk about the many beautiful photographers I saw there I want to mainly focus on the works by Schilte and Portielje, who I saw at the Kahmann Gallery stand. I had never heard of the photographers before but fell head over heels in love with their work. The dark black and white portraits were so beautiful, photography and styling wise. They have really inspired me with my project dealing with identity or lack of it and got me straight to experimenting with long exposures. I am absolutely blown away by their photographs and hope you feel the same. So here are a few of my favourites that I saw... I know you'll love them too!
Thursday, 13 October 2011
My New Favourite Photographer Is...
Donigan Cumming! When discussing my current project, my tutor gave me the name Donigan Cumming and ever since I've been hooked, recently buying both his Pretty Ribbons and Reality and Motive in Documentary Photography books.
In this blog post however I am going to show and talk to you only about Pretty Ribbons my favourite of all his work, and one that I feel most relates to the area of practice I am undertaking in my current project. In this series Cumming's "documents" (if you will) the life of former journalist come film actress, Nettie Harris, from their acquaintance in 1982 up until her death in 1993. I say documents lightly, as the images are set up, not by the photographer himself who merely creates the situations in which to photograph, but indeed by the model Nettie who is clearly in charge with what poses she pulls and how she wants to be viewed by the public. Indeed it seems Pretty Ribbons is concerned with her self-portrayal on her own stage, with her life itself. While she does not necessarily act in these images, she does not play the part of an actress; instead she takes up various roles that she feels make up her own person.
Nettie's physical and psychic presence is breathtaking and her sexuality is a huge matter of interest within the images as well. These photographs are disturbing and shocking for our society to behold as we sex (especially in old age) firmly in the taboo, and here Nettie is showing her own physical nature as a major theme throughout this series. Cumming's shows Nettie's countless wrinkles, folds and the natural bodies deterioration through old age as beautiful, not ugly as is viewed in today's perfection driven society.
I adore this book as it celebrates a vibrant and strong personality. A lady who has lived an intoxicating life and is not afraid to show off her flaws, her age her frailty but overall her beauty in somewhat absurd but striking photographs.
So here are a few of my favourite shots... just to give you a taster before you go out and buy the book!
In this blog post however I am going to show and talk to you only about Pretty Ribbons my favourite of all his work, and one that I feel most relates to the area of practice I am undertaking in my current project. In this series Cumming's "documents" (if you will) the life of former journalist come film actress, Nettie Harris, from their acquaintance in 1982 up until her death in 1993. I say documents lightly, as the images are set up, not by the photographer himself who merely creates the situations in which to photograph, but indeed by the model Nettie who is clearly in charge with what poses she pulls and how she wants to be viewed by the public. Indeed it seems Pretty Ribbons is concerned with her self-portrayal on her own stage, with her life itself. While she does not necessarily act in these images, she does not play the part of an actress; instead she takes up various roles that she feels make up her own person.
Nettie's physical and psychic presence is breathtaking and her sexuality is a huge matter of interest within the images as well. These photographs are disturbing and shocking for our society to behold as we sex (especially in old age) firmly in the taboo, and here Nettie is showing her own physical nature as a major theme throughout this series. Cumming's shows Nettie's countless wrinkles, folds and the natural bodies deterioration through old age as beautiful, not ugly as is viewed in today's perfection driven society.
I adore this book as it celebrates a vibrant and strong personality. A lady who has lived an intoxicating life and is not afraid to show off her flaws, her age her frailty but overall her beauty in somewhat absurd but striking photographs.
So here are a few of my favourite shots... just to give you a taster before you go out and buy the book!
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Readers
Ever since I got to see Andre Kertesz's series 'On Reading' at the Photographer's Gallery I have been inspired to do my own project about reading.
I love nothing better than a good book and just getting totally absorbed in it's world and therefore whenever I am out and about I photograph someone else who is absorbed in the wonderful world of literature. Nowadays, compared to when Kertesz embarked upon the project, there are so many different ways and materials for reading such as laptops, i-Pad's and phones, alongside the usual books, magazines and newspapers we are so used to, so it has been a really interesting project to embark upon, capturing the various methods and situations that people read in.
So far I have a collection of strangers, family and friends who I have photographed reading. Mostly done so on film camera as I normally have one of my film cameras along with me. So here are a few of my favourites that I have captured so far. Let me know what you think, and as my collection grows expect more blog updates on it!
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I love nothing better than a good book and just getting totally absorbed in it's world and therefore whenever I am out and about I photograph someone else who is absorbed in the wonderful world of literature. Nowadays, compared to when Kertesz embarked upon the project, there are so many different ways and materials for reading such as laptops, i-Pad's and phones, alongside the usual books, magazines and newspapers we are so used to, so it has been a really interesting project to embark upon, capturing the various methods and situations that people read in.
So far I have a collection of strangers, family and friends who I have photographed reading. Mostly done so on film camera as I normally have one of my film cameras along with me. So here are a few of my favourites that I have captured so far. Let me know what you think, and as my collection grows expect more blog updates on it!
Click on image to enlarge
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