Ophelia.

Photoshoot with the beaut Rosalind based on the painting of Ophelia by John Everett Millais.

Overlap.

Photoshop fun with overlaps, little experiment.

Amateur.

I've been going through old baby and family photos the past week to get a little slideshow together for the Bday and I found packs of photographs from my first ever camera. Amongst all the pictures of my dog and hamster there are actually some really beautiful images. Makes me think about what my friend Flo said about trying to unlearn skills so you go back to the naivity of the 10 year old, picking up a camera for the first time.
I might just be being completely bias as they are my photographs and I feel unbelievably nostalgic towards them but they are probably better than what I could do now, seeing as I overthink everything and care far too much about composition, angles etc. Just go with the flooooooow...

Chadwick Tyler.

I've been obsessed with Chadwick Tyler ever since I bought Grey Magazine Issue 5 back at London Fashion Week in September. Tyler did a editorial spread with Mercedes Benz, which was both beautiful and eerie. That however is a consistent theme within his work and takes fashion to that uncomfortable edge which not many photographers can do. 

www.chadwicktyler.com/

All photographs courtesy of Chadwick Tyler's 'Tabernacle' series.

 

 

Still Life photography.

Finally handed in all my work and scadaddled back home to Ayr through the snow and rain and i'm going to LANDAAN on thursday night so life is swell. Thought I would finally put up my still life photography work now everyone's handed in. I won't publish my studio photographs because they're not that interesting, but my location shots are a lot more interesting. I chose to base mines on the work on Martin Parr, Nan Goldin, Richard Billingham & Kevin Cummins.

 Kevin Cummins location, he does a lot of band, laddish and football photography, so i went to the pub and dunked stuff in Tennents and got involved in interesting chats with old men.

 

 Martin Parr does a lot of British themes, like Brits abroad and quintessentially British foods. I took inspiration from the British food bit, and thought about what I would class as a stereotypical 'Brit' food. I went to the chippy, Crollas, and a scaffy cafe.

 Nan Goldin worked primarily during the 70s/80s, photographing the glamorous New York underworld. She features subdued lighting and relfections in her work, so i created my own little boudoir and recreated these moods.

 And the final photographer was Richard Billingham, well known for his work 'Ray's a Laugh', where he photographed his family who are not exactly upper class. Our flat's rather scaffy so I just used what was available to me in each room.

my pretty, petty thieves.

Apologies for neglect bloggy, but here are photos from our fashion photography course. We had to pick a song lyric, mines was "we are pretty, petty thieves and you're standing in our streets", and it had to be shot with the image of i-D magazine in mind. HERE WE GO! not close to a final 8 but i'm going to print these ones and judge it from there because this is ridiculously  hard to narrow down!!!

cheeers ears m'loves.