There aren’t many photographers who haven’t heard of Helmut Newton, his most famous images were part of his ‘Big Nudes’ exhibition.
Newton was German born who left Germany at a young age to escape persecution for his Jewish roots, he spent time in Singapore before setting in Australia. Many people immigrated to Australia from different backgrounds [...]
Fashion Photographer Richard Warren is this weeks muse, a US Photographer from Texas has now become renouned for his images all over the world and is settled in the hustle and bustle of New Yorks fashion center, Manhatten.
Warren’s work has been published all over the work and has made his father a journalist for the [...]
Sarah Hobbs is an intriguing artist, she composes a scene based on every day life but to the extreme. She uses uninhabitated spaces like bedrooms or offices thenillustrates psychological pathologies to the extreme.
Sarah photographs the rooms absent inhabitants by showing the by products of there symptoms, titles like the perfectionist and insomnia have been given [...]
Hurrell was born in Covington, Kentucky, he originally studied fine art as a painter but soon developed an interest in photography when he began to use photography as a medium for recording his paintings. He moved from Chicago to California in 1925 and found that photography was a more lucrative career than painting.His talent for [...]
David LaChapelle began his career as a bus boy in Studio 54 in New York before working in Andy Warhols office Interview. His Big Break as a photographer came when Details Magazine gave him the chance to Art Direct, this gave LaChapelle the chance to fantasize and create compositions, after that magazines queued up to [...]
This week in the spirit of the Tour De France I came across an image of Cyclists by the Photographer Vittorio Alinari. This Italian photographer is probably credited in all the most popular photo books as one of the best known photographers from his time.
The picture above entitled ‘Cyclists’ is probably one of Alinari’s most [...]
I love pop-up books especially pulp-fiction covers, Thomas Allen has taken an X-acto knife to the pages of vintage books and then manipulated the images. Suddenly these two-dimensional characters spring to life in his photos as he plays arund with lighting and focus. It is for this reason I have chosen Thomas Allen as this [...]
Another great photographer I have had the pleasure of working with is Liverpool based Photographer Mark McNulty.
Although Mark McNulty is based in Liverpool his work has been commissioned and pulished nationally and Internationally. Although with Liverpool becoming the City of Culture this year he is focussing his efforts towards his home territory. He is working [...]
This week I am looking at French photographer, Guy Bourdin.
French orphan Guy Bourdin first received tuition in Photography during his military service in the French Air Force, he was stationed in Dakar, Senegal 1948 - 49. By 1950 he was ready for his fist exhibition of paintings and drawings at Galerie, Rue de la Bourgogne, [...]
Mario Testino
This week I will be looking at the work of renouned celebrity photographer Mario Testino.
Testino famously uses the fashions of the ‘moment’ to create iconic images of his subjects. He has photographed the likes of Princess Dianna, Kate Moss, Madonna etc [...]