Major Project: Still Researching

Since my last blog post ive been getting on with my research still and getting together a bunch of visual research to go in my sketchbook. As to the look of my photographs i found this really nice fashion shoot of Saoirse Ronan by Steven Meisel for Vogue based on the work of the Pre-Raphealites. Im really liking the romantic look and the use of contrasting red and greens as well as the reference to paintings which ive done before.

Saoirse Ronan for US Vogue by Steven Meisel

Keeping with fashion photography ive also been looking at depections of violence and battered women being used in fashion photography, i found really interesting articles on the subject on Jezebel here and The Guardian here. On a more progressive note for women ive been looking at the place women have in modern day Scotland with a bit of help from Engender's website. Engender is an orginisation for women in Scotland focusing on equality.

Back to artists research i found the work of Elene Usdin when i was researching fashion photography and objectification, in this article for the British Journal of Photography she talks about her self portraits mocking the idea of female objectification, being surreal and farcical.

Image by Elene Usdin

Another artist who merges self portraiture and fantasy using beautiful but stark landscapes is Kylli Sparre, she has done work inspired by dance and movement of the body, as a professionally trained dancer she has the dramatic pose down im pretty sure if i want to do something similar i might need to limber up a bit.

Image by Kylli Sparre

This weekend im going to be in Avimore, im starting to look at landscape and colour and im hoping to get lots of inspiration as well as having free time to read some more history based books.