Studio session with The Mercury Exhibition.

  

   

Test shots for Danni's shoot. Also the rest of my contact sheet.

There are 227 images altogether.

More of Danni. Fun shoot although.. With a poorly timed fire drill. More images on my flickr.

Little preview of my shoot with Danni

The reason I did this mini shoot with Danni was because I wanted to explore and develop my confidence in photography. This was in the dark studio and the material was old fabric, trying to make it look more luxurious.

I looked up corset shoots but nothing came up as classy. Then I looked up Dita Von Teese who is famous for her burlesque dancing, modelling and acting. I loved her constant vintage look and knew that Danni had a corset handy. Also, the fact she has a beautiful porcelain skin and dark long hair made it perfect to shoot. Danni is great with being in front of the camera and improvises with positions which helps me along.

Also, Rankin has photographed some of Dita Von Teese and I am a huge fan of his work.

I decided to move away from just portraits like before as it felt like that was a practise shoot. Although I was inspired by Slimane's work I didn't know how hard it was going to be. I had an idea in my head in what images i wanted. But it seemed like a wall had blocked my mind and everything i could think of was rubbish. I remembered back to Brian Griffin's work 

These are the rest of the pieces continuing from my first attempt.

Looking at Rauschenberg's work and developing my work from my portraits.

I wanted to take my portraits and go further and manipulate it like my film photos (Claudine). With this instead of chemicals I used black and white acrylic paints and merely painted over my photos on paper to create this effect. This was inspired by Rauschenberg, a lot of his work are montages of different images overlapping each other using materials such as paint and print.

I just used paint for these images but I think the outcome has been quite effective.

This was my initial thought  of recreating Rauscheberg's work. I was not sure about this and if it worked well. Also, i think i was scared to do anything to the face so i stayed safe and just did small proportions of the image. I used paint and a spatular to create this effect.