Terry Richardson

So recently i have been busy writing an essay on a photographer that inspires me for this i decided to choose Terry Richardson as he has been in the news recently because the controversy with Miley Cyrus and her video and images which he directed and took. I also chose him as i love his work but i have never really known a lot about his personal life etc. So after doing research i learnt he is actually quite a strange but simple man when it comes to photography. He is strange in the sense he makes every image provocative but simple as in he uses plain backgrounds instead of all these fancy backdrops like most photographers. 

To go along with the essay i had to recreate an image in the style of his below is the image i chose to recreate:

I recreated this image as i found it one of his most eye catching and different images as it isn't provocative but it stands out among the rest because of the use of hand gestures.

Below is my recreation of this image:

As you can see the image is similar but different i wanted to recreate it but not entirely copy his image this is why i decided to shoot my image landscape and crop it close to the models upper half.

Anita Corbin

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure to have a talk from a well known portrait photographer known as Anita Corbin. It was great being able to understand how she goes about her shoots and what inspires hers and how she started out and branched out into this well respected photographer that she is.

She talked to us about her most recent project which is all about the first women to ever do things such as race in the grand national or play at a gold club. It was amazing to see that she can take such a simple thing and make it into a huge project which not only has her being recognized over in the UK but is being shown all over the world even in the USA.

Before finishing her talk she set us a project to take an image of someone inspirational who we know or works in the community, I decided to use my grandma as not only has she had cancer three times and beating it but she is now living with one and  half lung and still carries on her normal day to day activities. You can see the image below:

Past Work

In the past i have completed a variety of projects so thought i would base this post around showing off some of my older bits of work:

The image above is one of the first ever images i took on location and still to this day it is one of my all time favorite images that i have taking.

The image above was taking during a mini Halloween project during my foundation diploma course. The reason i love this photo is the atmosphere it creates.

The image above is more recent to the over two as this was taking for the shoe project which was giving last year.

The final image is an image taking for my first project for my first year of my degree it was called the hat project i loved this image as it shows the hat subtly.