Guest lecture

This post is a little later than i intended but never mind, we had a guest lecture last week and it was given my Laura Pannack. Laura graduated from Brighton university's BA Hons Editorial photography course in 2008, and has now moved to London were she is freelancing and doing commissions, whilst carrying out her own personal work. Since leaving university her work has won and been shortlisted for a total of 15 awards. In such a short amount to time she has had amazing success and been published world wide.
It was a really interesting and very inspirational to hear from someone of a similar age and not that much further along her journey than we are. Her work really stuck a cord with me as she manages to get that something extra from her subjects which helps you to connect with them. She seems to be an out going person who although is at the beginning of her career has already gain a lot of respect within the industry and isn't afraid to go after what she wants. Work experience is looming which worrying me a little as i already don't have enough hours in the day and i still need to research more about where Im going to go! However i have emailed laura as i think i could really learn from her. Image from http://www.laurapannack.com/.

This week I have been looking for research for my CAP project. I am doing the classic fashion brief and I think I am going to base my project around a classic fairy tale, Alice in wonderland. After looking at research into the story and the new re make by Tim Burton. I have been looking at photographers that have photographer fairy tales. The photographer I am going to include this week is Eugenio Recuenco. The shoot that the image i have chosen is from was for Vogue Espana. His work is has a cinematic quality to it and i love the scenes that he creates. I particularly like the silvery colouring to the images I have included.

New York!

I was in New York this week which is why this post is late. New York was somewhere i had never been but always wanted to go and it didn't disappoint. I squeezed as much as i could into the 4 days that I was there. As well as all the usual tourist things to go and see we were also lucky enough to go to the studio of three photographers, Platon, Toledano and Chris Verene. Platon was the first photographer that we visited and i found him to be really emotional as a person. He could instantly connect with each and everyone of us in the lecture. He was very upbeat and positive which rubbed off on all of us. But i think out of the three photographer's that we saw Philip Toledano was my highlight. He talked quite alot about his 'A new kind of beauty' project. The images are beautiful and so elegant of both the males and females. He was heavily influenced by paintings for this project. During his talk I made lots of notes and reading them back makes he smile as he is a funny guy and there were lots of funny moments in his talk, he also had some really good advice. He said to always be honest with your subject about your intentions, talk to them as a person. He believes that the idea determines the execution and will approach this differently depending on the project, whereas Platon uses the same lighting set up in nearly every shot.

I am so looking forward to going to New York next week! We are hoping to visit three photographers and I have decided to look at one of them this week as I am particularly looking forward to meeting him as I admire his work. The photographer I am talking about is Platon. He uses the same lighting set up within the majority of his work which means that his work is instantly recognizable as being his. His distinctive style has brought him great success, I particularly like the way he treats his subjects and captures a sense of who they are. I cant wait to get out there!! Image from http://www.platonphoto.com/portraits/movies/index.html

This post is quite late so please forgive me! I was looking through Februarys issue of Dazed and confused and came across the new Louis Vuitton ad campaign for 2010 spring/summer. It really stood out to me as it was quite different from the other ad campaigns surrounding it. The idea behind it was the new age traveller. There are 6 visuals in total for the campaign all of which are modeled by Lara Stone. The background is a bed of moss and ferns which are supposed to emphasis the colours of the spring/summer collection however I think the whole double page spread is quite dark in the magazine. When looking the images online the brighter clothes are more obvious. The model is posed in a series of Bardot esque positions, looking glamorous and feminine surrounded by the foliage. The style of this image is interesting to me as it is along the same line of the look of images i was thinking of producing for my Gaia theory based project. Image from http://www.taistoisoisbeau.com/blog/wp-content/2009/12/Louis-Vuitton-Spring-2010-ad-Lara-Stone-01.jpg