Models: Elisa, Lari. This is a really bold, strong image, which is emphasised by the black and white quality of the photograph.

Taking inspiration from Johannes Stotter

This is one of Johannes Stotter's pieces, where he has painted the model to blend into the cracked ground, so that you have to look carefully to see that it's a person. The only characteristics that you can immediately identify of being human are the facial features, but even then they blend in rather well. I want to adapt this idea for my own designs, making the pattern on my characters face blend into the background. I could also apply this pattern and idea to other areas of the body such as the hands, which would blend into the background easier being flatter. I will experiment with pencil crayoned background, acrylic background and also actual object background, to see which works best and blending in.

Model: Lari. This photograph from the photoshoot creates a ghostly appearance of the model, as the image is blurry. I really like the swirling appearance of the dress, which is made of one gigantic piece of fabric, with another lighter, translucent fabric draped over sections of the dress to create an effect of an illusion, like a ghost.

Model: Lari. This is a really beautiful photograph from the photoshoot, with the face of the model looking right at the camera, yet you are unable to clearly make out her facial features. This also gives the image a ghostly effect that contributes to the overall theme of the magazine.

Model: Elisa. This is a photograph from our photoshoot, that was inspired by the fashion photographer Tim Walker, with the veil over the models face, and the object on her head. I really like this photograph as there is great contrast between the pure white of the dress and the dark blue veil over the models face. There is also contrast between the delicacy and couture-like quality of the outfit, and the location this photograph was taken in. These contrasts help emphasise one another, and create power in the image.

Model: Elisa. This is a very classy image in a less than classy environment. The outfit the model is wearing is different to all the other outfits we tried, as she is wearing accessories. Although I really like how the model appears to be gazing up to the ceiling, possibly deep in thought, or watching someone approaching from above.

Model: Elisa. I really like this shot as the model looks like she's trying to hold herself up from the chains, creating a distressed look, which contrasts with her outfit, yet fits in very well with the location, being dirty and run down.

Suburban Ghost photographs coming very soon

Coming soon are some of the final photographs from a collaborative photoshoot with the theme of Suburban Ghost, I was part of during a Fashion Styling short course at University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins.