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.