Vee Speers.
I have decided to look at this photographer because I really like her work, again she does a lot of work in a studio environment and that is the same as the work that I am undertaking. In the 2002 she decided to revisit the 1920’s and its styles of photography and used actual back drops for this time they still exist today. She would photograph people along the way to satisfy her attraction to anyone who dares to be different. This is what I like about this artist as I myself like to find things and take photos of things that are different and obscure. I don’t like to be herded in to a certain type of category and labelling. Vee is able to bluer the lines between fantasy and autobiography that create a unique kind of image.
She has displayed her work all over the world from Paris to Tokyo and has done numerous gallery works. She has also been featured in manly written works such as The Sunday times, Shots UK and American Black + White.
Her most famous work is the ‘Birthday Party’ and it is currently in its second edition. I love theses images as the person is facing the viewer directly and this creates feelings in the view of dramatic tension and causing the view to react to what they are seeing. I love how the images are very fantasy esk yet they are very simplistic in there approach. They are of one subject and the background is white there is nothing else to the images. Also they are a little over exposed in some cases creating at times the subject to almost fade in to the white background. I really like this effect.
Her other group of images are titled ‘Immortal’ and theses look at the theme of growing old and how society looks at the human form and its beauty and how it is obsessed with looking young. These images take ideas from the classical arts and the art work created in Photoshop of air brushed models and how people look in magazines and photos, how people believe they should look. I again love theses images as they have that kind of fantasy feel to them, were the models are placed on to an almost Eden kind of background and how it plays on people perceptions of how people should look.
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