014 - Published

YEAH cover shoot

This morning YEAH released an image of latest magazine which I shot the cover for.

As soon as I saw my photo like this I suddenly went from not liking the project to it being one of my favourite pieces of work. Which I suppose reinforces the point that the output of photography is vital to the way it's read. A point that had been brought up a lot recently at uni in essays and presentations, but what I have missed is that the context will change the visual power of the image. I think a major aspect of the original shoot that I didn't like was the large portion of negative space at the top of the image. It's only been cropped a little, but now that the title is there I think it add's to the image. Or, at least covers the part that detracts from the image!

But I'm proud. It's been a new genre, a new style and a new context. I think it's gone well

Magazine is out on the 15th Feb. Can't wait!

013 - Shoot

YEAH cover shoot

Today I was in the studio for, well, my first ever portrait shoot. Up until now I haven't shy'd away from the studio, but I've avoided photographing people. I suppose that's part of the reason I came to Bournemouth, to learn new things, expand my abilities. When YEAH Magazine asked me to shoot the front and back cover for the next issue, with a theme of 'Girls and Boys', I jumped at it.

I first got some great inspiration from Edward Weston's classic nudes, as well as Andreas Bitesnich, who I discovered through this page of amazing images. The idea began as having two models (a girl and boy) shot nude, one facing away from the camera, and one towards. Then reversing the directions for the back cover. However, with a last minute drop out from a model I had to change things around. Unable to find a nude model in 6 hours I pulled in the housemates. But as they were uncomfortable with being photographed naked I had to rethink the shoot. So I decided to try and create a bed scene within the studio, quickly realising the difficulty of lighting 2 models on a white floor with white linen. The differences between the front and back cover transferred to having one model turned over/asleep whilst the other was awake.

It was actually a really good, fun shoot. I got lucky with my housemates actually turning out to be pretty great in front of the camera. Now I have the next 20 hours to edit the shots and get them over to YEAH HQ. But here's a behind the scenes look of my feet and the lovely Camilla:

http://yeah-magazine.blogspot.com/

http://www.bitesnich.com/

008 - Exciting times

Exciting Times

Things have been crazily busy recently. But things have been exciting

YEAH

It's been a while since I've posted but news like this can't wait. Ben Errey over at YEAH Magazine has asked me to shoot the next cover, with the theme of Boys & Girls. Exciting times! It's been a while since I've done anything that isn't uni work so I'm particularly looking forward to this. So I just need to get the studio booked, sort out some models and I'm sorted.

Youth-led Media Summit

Thanks again to Ben Errey, he introduced me to the Youth-led Media Summit, which sounds, so good, there's loads of different workshops all day, Dazed & Confused are even offering an internship! So excited about this, so roll on next Tuesday! I spoke to Warsan who's the Project Officer for this, and she is so lovely! Even know I'm pretty late at getting involved with the summit she's been amazing and has sorted it all, even my travel expenses!

004 - Magazine

YEAH.

YEAH MAGAZINE IS A NEW THEME BASED, QUARTERLY, INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE. YEAH HAS BEEN PRODUCED TO BE AN AVENUE FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE TO GET THEIR WORK SEEN. EACH ISSUE WILL SEE A NEW THEME, GIVING THE MAGAZINE MORE DIVERSITY EACH TIME IT’S PUBLISHED. YEAH IS NOT JUST GOING TO BE A FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY MAG. WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE TIED DOWN, WE CAN GO ANYWHERE. IT IS ALL DESIGNED TO GET YOUR WORK SEEN!

YEAH. is great. I love it. From concept to quality, it delivers. The 4th issue came out last Sunday and from the personalised cover letter to the stew of creativity inside this 38 page quarterly mag. What I love is that every page has a personal touch from a different artist, be it photographer, illustrator, writer, stylist... the list goes on. YEAH is getting better with every issue yet maintains the sense that it is put together by creative people, for creative people.

I can only hope that YEAH continues growing, progressing and improving.

http://yeah-magazine.blogspot.com/

http://www.yeah-magazine.com/