Creatives
A PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSIGNMENT AT BERKELEY CASTLE
Faint Shadows Of Uncertain Light And Undisclosed Sensations
A portfolio of iconic tetratyches and impetuous photographs of self confident femininity. A subjective perception of human life.
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BLISS - A photographic exposure of naked femininity.
The engaging title of this erotic portfolio is easily explained. As it suggests, 'the highest happiness' is established because the model who posed for the photoshoot, BeatrixBliss is an astounding model.
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UNSHACKLED - A man's solitude for reflection. Amongst an English countryside location with a rich visual quality.
The portfolio 'Unshackled' became an over-whelming desire to undertake since I read reports and viewed TV footage of British Troops killed and maimed in Helmand, Afghanistan. I have thoughts of distressed families, friends and comrades with all nations lamenting the human sacrifice on both sides.
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WONDERS IN ALICELAND - A photographic parody of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy story.
I have always admired Lewis Carroll and his fantasy stories of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. They evoke strong awareness of his exceptional talent for the absurd, curious and fantasy. To create a photographic new-life transition for Alice has been a long-held ambition. A parody seemed the right course; the familiar fantasy story, same function, but taken to visual incongruity. Images of illusion, distortion and nonsense and with instantly recognisable respected iconic symbols as 'Aliceware' provided that important link with Carroll. Alice now seen as a young woman of the 21st century engages on a confident quest, she's a seasoned Lolita, a rebellious, uncontrollable individual.
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WONDERLAND DREAMS OF COLOURS - All together now! Vibrant, fast-moving designs from Beatrice von Tresckow
The name of Beatrice von Tresckow is synonymous with startlingly beautiful colours, beading and embroidery, in combinations that will leave you quite breathless. I photographed the outfits soon after completing an intricate parody of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The same location was used and her exuberant designs fitted so well within the lavish surroundings.
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BLUE ANGEL
A short but forceful portfolio embracing eroticism and nudity, drawing from the film Blue Angel directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930 - a voyeur's dream. The intimate and seductive nature of the photographs does much to immortalise Dietrich's character Lola, her adoration of being a "shared woman" thrills her. In the film the return of Lola's panties serves to enrage Rath her admirer, and when I photographed Erica she insisted that discarding her panties in the photographs would depict the perverted and corrupt truth about back-street nightclub life and women like Lola. I guess you'll be the judge.
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KOOKY CHIC -
Adieu Neustaedter
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life of imagination helps me determine what I photograph. I never tire of skin
and nakedness. A nude provides a fluency and elegance unlike any other form.
Its grace is intrinsic, sincere and honest so too is natural light. This
portfolio ‘Kooky Chic’ has been a labour of love. A year in the making I
grappled with the idiosyncrasies of eroticism and provocative imagery, walking
the razor’s edge between the barely acceptable and the downright pornographic.
Voyeurism styles images well because we all appreciate a snatched look.
Edginess is exciting.
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AFFINITY OF CONTOURS
There’s
no mystery in the photographing of nudes and architecture; nothing odd or
inaccessible or elitist with observing nakedness amongst, in this case, a lofty
glass-walled space with city vistas into the distance. A minimalist expression pervades my 'Affinity of Contours' portfolio. The photographs are inclined to be more voyeuristic, due in part to glass expanses that invite inward-looking eyes.
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INAMORATA
The love a man and a woman have for
each other is quite a spectacular thing. Photographically the event
has not been explored enough. Artists have strived to capture it in paintings
and sculpture. Tales, myths and legends examined and beautifully transposed
into artwork conveying the essence of love between men and women. Thisportfolio is a short escape
to a calmer adult and responsible world. One of maturity and adoration making
this album of photographs a singular unique occasion in my opinion.
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REFLECTERE - AMOUR-PROPER
A beautiful woman, a private moment alone. Is the camera no more than inconsequential voyeuristic apparatus indulging us, without reality's burdening puritanical ideology, to view what we cannot have except through photography's veil of imagination?
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SPECTATRIX - The feminine witness
A woman looks. She beholds; a feminine witness of all she surveys. Any other soul present within her sightline, to her just a voyeur.
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LIFE INTERRUPTUS - Rarely is it “just-calling-to-say-hello”.
Since the beginning of time until the moment Graham Alexander Bell’s invention became available it was necessary to be within earshot of somebody to conduct a conversation; the telephone changed all that. I offer a light-hearted delve into this realm with this portfolio, where feminine skulduggery lurks beneath the surface and provides an eccentric set of images.
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