Occasionally I like to feature my personal project work here in my Blog, to show potential wedding and portrait clients the other areas of my work which usually also play a part in the development of my style in my commercial work. This particular body of work also respresents a significant part of my submitted work for my current MA in Photography. Some photographers simply do photography because it is a "job", for me it is also a passion, therefore I have almost as many personal project on the go as I do commercial ones.
For inspiration for a current personal project, I have drawn on the work from the 1962 fashion photoshoot by David Bailey, of model Jean Shrimpton in New York for UK Vogue, which has recently been released as a book entitled "JS BD NY 62". Whilst at the same time adding my own spin to things, I have also tried to stay true to the style of this particular historic shoot as I could, as I think that in this instance imitation whilst usually seen as a form of flattery, could also be viewed as an insult if it did not both add something whilst at the same time paying tribute to Bailey's original ground breaking work.
I am incredibly fortunate with my model (Raphaella) to have found a model with the skills to really interpret the look I wanted, Bailey said of Shrimpton she was an excellent model in that he only needed to take a few shots and he knew he had the image he wanted, the same can also be said with Raphaella, in addition unlike the original UK Vogue shot, Raphaella had to produce her own wardrobe ..!!
The plan for this work is to produce a book which will mostly be black and white images interspersed with the odd colour image again keeping true to the original shoot.Labels: marc byram photography personal projects model rapaella mcnara blackpool june 2010 david baily's 1962 UK Vogue of Jean Shripton in New York ideas for recreating photographic iconis images
