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This artist was special to me this year, I found him on Instagram, his photography wowed me differently. His photoshop skills stood out to me with illusions such as floating theme photos. I tried to respond to his photography and made my own versions during quarantine. This relates to this project as it’s a new story with my own photography using this style that I fell in love with.

 This French artist is also my age, so we share the same generation which further inspires me to create fantastic photography similar to his style. He might not be a professional photographer, but he is for sure an artist I look forward to now when he posts on Instagram. He stated in an interview “I dislike doing things that other people have already done. With that said, sometimes it’s fun to do it. I try to avoid repetition as much as possible. It’s a constant struggle for anyone”. This makes me want to do more unique photography that I can take towards the upcoming academic year and into the future. 

He started when he was only 17. He had an obsession with faces and the surreal style, he used to do a lot of trick photography, making people levitate, ghosting clothes, Irving only got into shooting the city a lot later when he joined Instagram to further experiment with his techniques and style. 

Finally I want to say that he inspired me to make content to show people a false concept and sense of reality, he stays on trend and stays consistent which I look forward to be doing in my own future and career. below I will show my response to his style using photography.

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A photographer and director, Chris Saunders’s work is typically vibrant, fresh, appealing and experimental, with a characteristic ‘street’ quality and engaging humour. He tends to be a storyteller, which really works well with this unit’s idea. Hailing from a background in fashion photography, Saunders increasingly approaches all his projects from the standpoint of a visual storyteller. He seeks to create realistic, believable characters from all walks of life, and uses a considered, research driven process to build authentic, emotionally stirring stories in visual media.

In all teamwork, Saunders seeks out individuals who are ‘masters’ in their own creative fields, those he can learn from. He is in continual pursuit of knowledge, dedicated to pushing boundaries, ‘to always incorporating something new, interesting and fresh’.

 Chris has inspired me massively with his line of street-style, fashion and his portraiture work. In my opinion Saunders creates stories within his work with the help of the models and their style. Each clothing style he chose in his shots work so well with the backdrops, the culture and the model itself. In my photography for my latest and modern fashion clothing I chose a simple and clean background that could also complement my models’ style and didn’t look vintage; I wanted natural street style shots. Additionally I also managed to use selective colour on one of the shots to create a cool tone to it and leave his body in black and white to complement the clothes and background, its contrasted well enough for the viewer to not get lost but guided with their eye towards my model.   

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This photographer inspired me completely with his outstanding technique by using selective colour in his photographs. Nico is a professional London photographer specialised mostly in creating exciting visual content for global brands. In 2014 he was listed in the global Top 100 Most Socially Influential Photographers, in 2015 he was announced in the 20 Most Influential Street Photographers and in 2016, the Top 20 UK Photographers on the Web. I chose him because of his rare technique which is not used as much today but in the mid 2000 which where my actual photoshoot was themed at when I used selective colouring. 

Selective colour photography is a fairly humble procedure of photo manipulation in which you renovate a photo in black and white leaving an “accent” or partial colour on a photograph or a selected area. It’s sometimes frowned upon by photographers as it can often be executed with poor taste but like with all types of photography, I believe this technique can be used with great results. Highly underused by photographers which yet perfectly possible to create striking urban, fashion or street photographs when used with creativity, vision and good taste.

In my photoshoot I got motivated to reduce bolder colours such as the background and focus on more vibrant colours that could stand out such as red or yellow. 

Here is how I managed to perform colour spotting and use selective colour in photoshop. I opened my raw image, set my foreground and background colours to default, added a gradient map adjustment layer, selected the brush tool, set my foreground colour to black, lowered the hardness on the brush, resized and checked my brush options, restored the colours and started to fade the monochrome with the colour I wanted to leave out. Here is one example that U inserted in this project as a response to Nicholas. 

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Born in 1954, Steven Meisel became debatably the most significant and productive fashion photographer of his generation. In a body of work notable for its imaginative range and diversity, he has achieved dominance in both editorial and advertising fashion photography. He is the primary photographer for the American and Italian editions of Vogue, where his covers and fashion pages have regularly appeared since the late 1980s, and he has produced some of the most memorable fashion advertising ever created, including campaigns for Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Valentino, and Yves Saint Laurent, among a long list of advertising clients. 

Unlike many fashion photographers who base their work on a signature style, the character of Meisel’s work is intriguingly diverse. Steven once stated “Inspiration comes from all over the place,

“I’m eager to soak up new information as it can be from the nineteenth century as long as it’s new to me. It can come from going to the grocery store or looking at an artist from a million years ago”. From this quote I believe that Meisel, is a very intelligent individual who can sense an idea from the environment round him. Relating to my project about the evolution of fashion, Steven teaches me that artists or myself could get inspired from anything around us, and this further can develop to a meaningful and successful work or art or photography. In the shots above you can see three perspectives from the lens.

 One is a profile close up shot which focuses on the model’s facial features and the details of the clothing, in my photoshoot I also have that shot in which my model is captured torso up, with his hand on the collar to show off the specific detail on the arm cuff which has been cut off. The second is an object shot of shoes of the model which focuses on the texture, in which it’s how long they have worn them for, shoes create history and bonds with people as you can even say that you’ve walked in those specific pair in a memorable place. In my shoot, I present a close up of my model’s belt which he wears everywhere he goes, this further relates to Stevens photoshoot and the worn shoes that’s in the shot. 

The third shot is a full body shot of the body, which additionally showcases the background which is a calming field. In my final photoshoot, the environment is a park which was the closest I could find to a field. 

Steven Meisel have definitely inspired me with this project because of his diversity of ideas and compositions. His pictures do more than just show off expensive clothes. They tell a story, often focusing on political and social topics that most other photographers tend to shy away from. Racism, terrorism and domestic violence have all played a part in his work, causing a flurry of media storms worldwide. Meisel’s photography makes you think.