Whilst looking for images similar to Corinne Day's Diary I found the work of Nick Waplington, who took photographs of two families for five years whilst living on Broxtowe housing estate in Nottingham while he was studying photography at what is now Nottingham Trent University. The aim of this project was to shoot a microcosm of life in a room, which showed honestly, and...
Richard Billingham's series 'Rays a Laugh' are images of his family in their home on a day to day basis. The story behind these images is a tragic one; Billingham's father, the books namesake is a chronic alcoholic, and his mother a very heavy smoker. His younger brother Jason is sometimes pictured, but he was taken into care as a young boy and...
Marie Jacob and Julia Strathmann are the two Berlin based women behind Jacob Reischel. They both studied Industrial Design at The University of Arts Berlin. Jacob went on to become a photographer, Strathmann a Graphic Designer; however they collaborate together to produce very elegant, considered designs for magazine and web pages, but largely focus on Still Life and creating concepts. All of their...
Heroin chic was a controversial fashion trend of the 1990's, influenced primarily by Nan Goldin and her real life, gritty portraits of outcasts. Images depicted very slim young girls and models with very angular faces and often dark circles under their eyes. Julian Broad, a portrait photographer, described heroin chic as photographs were not fully lit and the girl not smiling; a much...
I really liked the outcome of my disposable images which I took in Barcelona and was eager to shoot again on a disposable in a similar style. For this shoot me and my friend on the Fashion Promotion and Communication course at NUA both needed similar style images; she is in the process of creating a magazine publication and asked me to model...
Today I photographed AJ again, trying out another potential image for my D&AD brief. My final Outcomes: For my final outcomes I tried three different crops of the same image in photoshop, to see if altering this would effect the mood of the image, and effect what I want the image to portray to a viewer. I am happy with the lighting of...
Today I also shot a lighting test for another image for my D&AD series, this time based on a swimmer. I was influenced by Diego Lorenzo Jose, a Manila-based photographer I discovered on Bēhance, an online media platform for creative practitioners. He had a series of athletic portraits which were similar in style to ones I had perviously shot, and this particular one stood out to me as something I wanted...
Trainspotting is a British Black comedy crime drama directed by Danny boyle, which follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980's economically depressed area of Edinburgh. The film explores urban poverty and received some bad press for its glamorisation of drug abuse. I really like the aesthetic of the film and its similar to that which I want to achieve in...
Corinne Day's 1997 shoot for penthouse really caught my eye as images which were the perfect mix of fashion and documentary photography. A soft porn magazine, Penthouse was first issued in 1965 as a rebellious magazine which developed against the structured prim beauty of playboy as a more natural and untouched publication. The shoot paid homage to the 60's and 70's era...
I have already decided that I want my narrative to be about me and centred around my friends and whats personal to me. I looked into Mario Sorrenti and his book and exhibition entitled 'Draw Blood for Proof' which was a collection of personal inspiration images which he had collected in the 90's and pasted onto a wall in his loft. It shows...
Whilst browsing images produced by Corinne Day I came across this advert for miu miu for s/s1994. I really like the tones of the image and the simplicity of the styling and location. It reflects Corrine's natural beauty aesthetic which her photography possesses. ...
Today we were given our third and final brief of BA1b; an open brief which we shall propose our ideas for on March 7th, to form into small groups of between 5-7 people, and to then exhibition our work in those working groups as either an exhibition or publication format. As the brief gave us so much scope on what we could photograph,...
Human traffic is a film which has a similar aesthetic to that which I want to create with my narrative; the dirty, raw, natural imagery with lots of grain and contrast. The film is a British/Irish independent film which explores drugs and clubs, and relationships. I was first introduced to the film during my A- Level psychology lessons as we explored the portrayal...
