For my next artist I will be studying, I shall be using the style of Russell James, who is a famous modelling, beauty, and lingerie photographer who has a huge portfolio of shoots he has done for companies like Vogue, W, American Photo, and Victoria's Secret. I wish to combine the style of Russell along with the idea of 'social media', and the fake world we live in. What I mean by this is you could see a photograph of a beautiful woman's face, yet the bottom half is not shown to the audience, as this could change your view on the person within the shot; They could be wearing a bin bag as clothing yet still have the face of an angel. We most often than not hide the negative things within our life, and only show and broadcast the positive moments to the rest of the world; This links back to my theme of showing the viewers both sides of the story and emotion in this next series of photographs.
These are some of the photographs I have taken which are inspired by Russell James:
The next set of photographs are the ones I have taken to emphasise how people often show only the positives to the public through social media, and keep the negatives to themselves.
Below are the contact sheets for the photographs above. I feel the shoot went really well, and I only had the odd photograph that went wrong with either the aperture or ISO, but on the whole it was a very successful shoot and the photographs I got are very appealing to the eye:
