Stumbled across her work as the winner of the photo8 summer competition. I love her style and her use of colour through her film photography. I thought this work (below) was particularly interesting.
"I planned my initial meeting with the women to act as an introduction but also to really gage their ideas and how they responded to imagery. I asked them prior to our meet to gather images of their mothers at the age that they are at now as well as any images they liked. The session was a great success and their response was that they felt positive looking at the old pictures and in actual fact felt they looked younger than their mothers. We all loved the aesthetic of the photographs and agreed that images today tend to veer more on the side of commercial advertising and occasionally cheesy. They felt the media presents an extreme sterio-type of women within their age group. Either highly unrealistic models of women who resort to things like botox and surgery to gain a more youthful appearance or the opposite by showing frail and vulnerable elderly women often housebound or victims of society.
As well as working closely with each women and producing images of them in their own enviroments/workplaces etc and showing that they are active, fun and vibrant individuals I also thought it would be a nice idea to add a separate part to the project and reflect on this initial observation..."
As well as working closely with each women and producing images of them in their own enviroments/workplaces etc and showing that they are active, fun and vibrant individuals I also thought it would be a nice idea to add a separate part to the project and reflect on this initial observation..."
Definitely has that feel of a photograph from a different era, its interesting to think about which elements of imagery we see give us its sense of era.
