Monday 4 November 2013

Assignment 5: A summary of Vee Speers

STYLE: Vee Speers' style is very unique. She doesn't just capture an image- she expresses a message behind her photographs. She quite clearly illustrates how she 'doesn't like to follow the crowd'. Her images are both disturbing and beautiful, and focuses on the contrast between fantasy and reality.

TECHNIQUE: The common technique that is used by Vee Speers is the position of the models. She locates her models in the centre of the frame, in front of a dull white background. The models also, especially in Thirteen and The birthday party, dress her female models in typical children's dresses

NARRATIVE:
The narrative behind Vee Speers' images is always very detailed. One example of the narrative of her images is ' the birthday party'. She expresses the triggers concerning todays paranoid society, and shows a great depth of emotion behind these issues. When Vee Speers uses the male models, she portrays the exploitation of child soldiers in this day and age.

CONTEXT: Vee Speers uses brightness and her focus point very well.  She uses dull, although sharp lighting to contrast her centre subjects against it.

Tuesday 29 October 2013

original images- vee speers



 

Vee Speers-analysing images


This is taken from Vee Speers' 'Thirteen'. For me the message of this image seems to reflect a dark and ominious mood, and forces me as a viewer to be curious as to what the image entails. The two crows represent doom or death and are used well in the photograph to portray this meaning. On the other hand, the white colour scheme in the image symbolizes cleanliness and perfection. Both the black and white together seem to come across as dull and simple, although the image is detailed in it's own way. The girl is also a pale shade so blends in well, with slight contrast too. The lighting is soft and, although the background is plain and white, the overall tone of the image is darkly lit. This gives the impression of something mysterious in the photograph. The image is taken from eye level which does not suggest that the subjects in the image are of more or less importance from a viewpoint.

comparison between Perou and Vee Speers

Perou and Vee Speers are both very talented and technical photographer's, always drawing audiences in with their unique styles.
Perou 
Perou is 43, born In Newick. He is a British fashion, portrait and music photographer who has appeared in make me a supermodel in the UK and US and dirty sexy things. He studied at the university of Westminster and in 1994, Perou met many famous photographers, and began his first line of work with magazine companies such as dazed and confused and skin two.
His style: I think that perou mainly captures portraits as this is his strong area. He uses celebrities in many of his photographs to portray individual messages, and this also draws in an audience if celebrities are promoting or representing what's in the image. Perou also carries out long running collaboration's such as his work with Marilyn Manson. His photography skills aren't basic as he covers many different image ranges, rather than just focusing on one particular group of creations. Perou's area of work consists of:
- 'portraits'
- 'music'
- 'commissions'
- 'fashion'
- 'Personal'
- 'Projects'
- 'The other side'
Perou's website: http://www.perou.co.uk/

Vee speers
Vee Speers is 51 and an Australian photographer that lives in Paris. She has featured in images magazine, The Brtish journal of photography and the Sunday times(UK).  She is probably most known for her work in ' The birthday party' and 'Parisians'. Unlike Perou, Vee Speers shows focus and interest in expressing a detailed message behind her images. For example ' The birthday party' shows a modern society of  how children are growing and trying to mature before their age. Although Perou, in different ways to Vee Speers, shows great skills, we can tell that Vee Speers is all about showing depth of creativity in the art of her photographs. I am personally very interested in Vee Speers' line of photography because many of the pictures mesmerize me. Especially with the birthday party and 'Thirteen', the images are carefully displayed and show the focal point clearly- this is because it's the same neutral backdrop, and the child is the main subject of the photo. It draws me in as the child seems mystifying and shows timeless elegance. Vee Speers freezes her model's postures, slightly making them look like lost guests at a fancy dress party, or like ghosts. The costumes are contrasted with various elements that make you feel curious, sometimes happy and other times sad. And because of all these series' of shots are taken at eye level, this makes the viewer be engaged emotionally. The military props in some of the photographs refer to cold hard reality of how child soldiers exist around the world. These images are captured using toy props modelled by young boys. The girls are captured just as impressively- they stand there like stiff wax figures, yet there is still something deeply disturbing about them. I personally think that Vee Speers reflects the mood's of her images perfectly.
Vee Speers' area's of work:
- ' The birthday party'
- ' Thirteen'
- 'Parisians'
-  'Bordello'
- 'Immortal'
Vee Speers website: http://www.veespeers.com/