This Business of Art...

I've started collaborating a lot more with fashion students this year. It makes such a difference, as I don't have to worry so much about the styling side of things, and they have been lovely people to work with. It means I get to concentrate on taking the pictures and essentially get to stick to what I'm good at (I hope!)

I've been working a lot on my website, so that should be finished sometime next week. And I'm making business cards.

Generally feeling quite professional right now...

(Currently listening to City & Colour

and making a mixtape for Joe ♥)

Wild Things

I haven't updated this for a while (mostly due to the fact Mike helped me set this up, and I forgot how it all worked over the summer!) I have actually been incredibly busy since coming back to Bournemouth, though I'm enjoying every minute.

Over the summer, I became really interested in children's fashion and portraiture, and I really feel I've found my little niche in the photography world. It's certainly the path I would like to follow, and I just enjoy it so much. I think that for the first time, I'm actually creating the images I see in my head (as odd as that may sound!)

For this project, our brief was 'Narrative' and I decided to create a fashion story based on the much-loved classic book 'Where The Wild Things Are'. Rather than taking it too literally, I decided to work with the concept of children loosing themselves in their own little world, and escaping their environments. (I could write a ridiculous amount about this project, but I think that describes the basic idea behind it all!)

All in all, I think it's been my favorite project.

(Currently listening to: AFI's new album. Currently reading: 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold)

Matthew.

I wish every picture I took was like this. It's definitely one of my best images, everything just seems to work. I always find I take far better pictures when I don't plan anything. It's part of a series of location portraits for one of my first university projects, and was taken using a Hasselblad (I still really enjoy using film).  Matt is my younger brother, and kindly stood in the pouring rain, in the middle of winter until I got the picture I wanted.

The Location is a church in Leicester, which reminded me of a gospel church from the deep south of America. Its actually a Mormon church, I went in asking permission to shoot outside, they were actually really nice, though I did get stuck talking to them for ages (This was on Christmas Day!)