Opera!

Have you ever heard the story of Leontyne Price, the first black opera singer?. How she gained a 45 minute ovation. A real rags to riches story. I decided to use this as a starting point for my images, styling Holly in some really rich fabrics. And I worked on top of these images with bold and dramatic sketches and doodles, just like opera...

Haiti and Vodun Religion

Originally I watched a programme on the dancer,Katherine Dunham and i was intrigued by her heritage and the vodun Religion. I wanted to portray a spiritual being and voodoo dolls. This was shot at a yellow grass quarry. Probably some of my favourite images

12th street riots

Looking at the 12th street riots in ditroit I created my own slogan T-shirts assciated with the riots, better housing, police, voting. I photographed molly in the studio, and i created my own backdrop of my interpritation of detroit, from layering derelict images I had taken. Took a lot of time to create them, as i didnt want two of the same backdrop.

Folk

Based on Odetta the Folk singer, I read a book about her and how she influenced black african americans in the play and inner life and become hugely inspired. I focused on the folk style, right through to the final manipulation of the image. I shot Natasha at an old farm house local to were I live, which had many caravans scattered around. A true reflection of how odetta travelled around America spreading her music and lyrics around the black American community.

Getting back

Ok so iv not posted for some time .So i am literally going to do a huge catch up of what iv done over the past year.

River island

River island competition outcome..

Native american shoot outcome

This is the shoot images from the native american theme. as you can see i played around with the images, through collage and printing. super happy with the outcome. i didnt want a cliche, feathers and suide.I updated the overall images with inspiration from rodarte 2010.