Some more from Kim Crispe's shoot

Kim Crispe: Graduate Fashion Week

straight out of camera... wow

and some simple colour edits:

Did a shoot today for the lovely Kim Crispe who is graduating from my Uni at the moment and showing at Graduate Fashion Week this year. RUCA won it last year, so fingers crossed!

Here are a couple of quick edits.

Design: Kimberly Crispe

MUA: Lisa Weal

Model: Ellis

Visual Seduction

The title of my latest project, I had to extend or create a new campaign for a chosen brand.

I chose the wonderful Tom Ford, and here are the results!

Got good feedback today from my group critique, so happy! The models like them too which is fab.

Three For a Girl

A band shoot from last week:

A couple of test edits from JPG for the style, mostly for Lucy and Tom's benefit!...

Band: Three For a Girl

Styling: Lucy Emma Harris

Management: Tom Packman

An exhibition to check out...

VICE & NINTENDO

= A pokemon themed art show!

24th - 31st March at Blackall studios, Leonard street

www.viceland.com/repokemon

I am releasing my inner child and DS fiend here.... I bloody loved pokémon!

Anyway, seven artists have been commissioned to create a Pokémon inspired piece of artwork to celebrate Nintendo's newest Pokémon releases on the DS, and are holding an exhibition to showcase the works, from 25th - 31st March, at Blackall Studios.

Go to www.viceland.com/repokemon to see more of the artwork and enter the competition, where you could win entry to the opening party on the 24th... lots of drinkkk, Friendly Fires, Filthy Dukes, Pokémon themed food (I am excited to see what this means) and of course Nintendo products to sample while you view the artwork!


My favourite by Jon Burgerman, a blog following him and his work can be found here

Go enter the competition and then hopefully, I will see you there...

Busy couple of weeks

We have our setbuild project at Uni, as well as a Sequence and Series project, Essay and Fashion project. All at once. WOW.

Myself and the setbuild group (my flatmates plus Charlie) have decided to do a still from Old Boy after considering The Fly (gross), Let the Right One In, Thirst and some others including kevin's contribution, a Beatles musical set in the Vietnam war (love you really Kev). I am yet to be sent this still so will post when I recieve it.

The Fashion project I have already mentioned, I am creating a new campaign for Tom Ford Eyewear and it has to be believable as the next campign. No pressure or anything... I also cannot wait to see A Single Man, if only there were somewhere around here showing it. I have to wait until next week to see it in the city! Very impressed that the main star of the ads Jon Kortajarena is in it, who I may or may not be a tiny bit in love with.

a m a z i n g

Also, he is quoted as saying "I am a hopeless romantic. I believe in that grand love which can change your life in five days. Maybe it is just because I´m too young, but I really hope to believe the same at the end of my days." Wow.

So this is a very quickly retouched (for colour) version of one of my shots from my shoot... I have planned to get one of Fran alone, one of my male model Geoff alone and a couple shot, but after showing them to my tutor I have decided to crop Geoff to make it more eyewear and less menswear. I need to spent sooo much time on these for the hair and everything eek! But should be cool once it's done. Still need to pick the final 3 shots!

In other news, I did a promo shoot for Three For a Girl styled by Lucy Emma Harris, all arranged by their lovely manager Tom. A few of them should be being illustrated over by the amazing Toby Triumph which is exciting. The contact sheets are being poured over at the moment so I will upload a few of these when they are done!

APC style

Some shots in the style of APC for Nadine's new project.

I don't post often enough

but there you go...

I have finished my book "Sally Murray"... that needs to be photographed and scanned and what have you for here... however I am bedridden, so I will focus on the new project for now.

It's basically Fashion and Advertising, and I need to create an ad for an existing brand, taking their current campaigns and history into account.

SO:

I narrowed it down to Burberry, as that's where my knowledge and photographic talent is best placed I think. I had models in mind, the clothing sorted, black and white straight portraits etc.

OR:

I was really liking the look of Tom Ford's campaigns, the AW 09 always caught my eye in magazines because to be honest I wanted to be the girl in the campaign and be with the guy! And then this season they've come out with a great continuation in the shape of Nicholas Hoult and an attractive blonde OTT topless model with the male chauvinistic theme of her combing his hair. It will be tricky to come up with something along the lines of this, and to work out the lighting and do it as well as Tom has been but this is the one I've decided to do!

Very exciting. I was up until 6am searching for models and what have you, will update when I can.

Grace Jones

Photography: Myself
Editing: Hayley Powell
Styling: Nicole Allan & Nadine Blagdon

Model: Nicholette

Home for the Holidays

in pictures.....

With a compact camera & Blackberry ... it's the way forward

We went to The Old Blue Last last night for a bit of New Years Eve merriment, today we went for our take on the traditional family New Year's Day dinner.