Vee Speers Slideshare

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Vee Speers is an Australian Photographer who is based in Paris. She studied at Queensland College of Art before working as a stills photographer for the ABC television. In the early 90's she moved to France and has since worked in fashion and photojournalism. Today she is a well established fine-art photographer with her work appearing is many well known exhibitions and publications.

This set of photographs is from her 'Birthday Party' series it was published in 2008. I think these photographs reminds you of being a young child and dressing up to become someone new, a cowboy, a soldier,a princess or an angel. The boy dressed as the soldiers is very striking as it gives a more sinister tone to the series. If you look closer as the photos you see they all have an underlying aspects of conflict and violence. Vee Speers has made these photo dramatic by making the faces look directly at the camera. this draws in the viewer. the photos are very simplistic which in this case adds to the visual intensity because there is the fantasy aspects of the photos that is played down by the blander colours and simple composition.

This is  a quote from Vee Speers about her work "I don’t like to follow the crowd. I like to seduce, with images that are at once disturbing and beautiful, but leaving a space for the viewer to enter my world. My portraits combine elements which evoke conflicting emotions that can surprise the viewer, telling a story that is somewhere between fantasy and reality, the obvious and the unexpected."

This is another series by Vee Speers called 'Thirteen' she took theses after 'The Birthday Party'. They are of her daughter when she was thirteen. She was trying to capture the transitions from child to teenager. Visually they are very similar to 'The Birthday Party' however they show more of a story, it symbolises a child growing up, spreading her wings. She has new found freedom.

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Annie (Anna-Lou) Leibovitz was born on 2nd of October 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut. She moved to the Philippines where she took her first photos. During high school she was interested in playing music and writing plays. She went to the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting. Annie returned to the United States in 1970 and started her career as a photographer working for the Rolling Stone magazine. In the 1980s, Annie's new style of lighting and poses got her a position with Vanity Fair magazine.

This Series of Photography was taken in 2007. The Walt Disney Company hired her to do a series of photographs with celebrities in various roles and scenes for Disney Parks " Year of a Million Dreams" campaign. She has used well known celebrities such as Russell Brand, Johnny Depp and Jennifer Lopez. Some of these photos are made to look like they have been painted.

This is the Alice in wonderland series taken for Vogue in 2003.

Composition

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John Hedgecoe - Henry John Moore
The position of Henry's hands emphasises that Henry is a sculptor. Positioning his hands at the front of the photo shows the aim of the photo is Henry's profession. In is work Henry uses his hand that is why John Hedgecoe has arranged this photo to have them as the focus but also have Henry in the background.

Lighting

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Perou - Marilyn Manson

The lights in this photo have been positioned above his head. They shine down creating a shadow around his eyes, this emphasises the dark eye make up. A pink light has been used as well as the photo has been taken with a red background.