This is a Slideshare on Vee Speers done by Becca Hewitt
Saturday 7 September 2013
Independant Research - Vee Speers
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.
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 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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