Thursday, 30 September 2010

Photograph of the Day > Lady Gaga by Ellen Von Unwerth


Lady Gaga has brought a whole new level of sexy to the spotlight. Forget glamorous spray tanned double G models; it's vamp fever! Her body is to die for and so are her fangs! Ellen Von Unwerth certainly knows how to capture 'sex' and 'vampires' in a photograph! I love the chunky heels, fiercely raunchy pose and expression and the high contrast in black/white which is one of Unwerth's trademarks in her photographs. I had seen this photograph a while ago as it was shot for OUT magazine, August 2009 but came across it again today and forgot how much I loved this photo! This feature is called 'The Lady is a Vamp' and is styled by Nicola Formichetti.

Read more:  OUT mag interview

More from this shoot:

Self-Portrait Photography II featuring Josefine Jönsson

First of all I would like to say sorry that I haven't posted in a while! Been very busy with college work, but I've decided to try to at least post one every 2 days.

I decided to do a feature on self-portrait photography for my graphics project where I am 'exploring myself' to find out 'Who I Am'. Check out Part I to this ongoing series of entries for Self-Portraiture > 'Self-Portrait Photography I featuring Lara Jade' Many artists and photographers have tried to do this and one way of finding themselves is to see how they capture themselves on camera. What expression, make-up do they put on? Oscar Wilde once said 'Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.' and I believe can be applied to all mediums of art.

This post features Josefine Jönsson self-portraits who I found on DeviantArt. Her work is often conceptual based, have horror/macabre elements, dark and is very atmospheric. Her location shots are beautiful and I love her creative imagery and thought-provoking ideas.



I chose this very recent self-portrait of Josefine as the moody dark navy colours, shallow depth of field and obscurity of her face is very captivating, cryptic and creepy. I love how her hand reaches out to the viewer as if she's about to grab you and pull you in or reach out to you like she's grasping for help. To me this is powerful image as it evokes feelings of fear, awe and horror. The toning of the the blues is beautiful.

See more images of her work at DeviantArt, Flickr, Carbonmade, Wordpress


© 2006-2010 Josefine Jönsson

Monday, 20 September 2010

Photograph of the Day > Anja Rubik by Artur Wesolowski

This is a very captivating image of supermodel Anja Rubik by Artur Wesolowski. It's great that she's designed this collection for Quazi and she's modelling them. More talent the better! I love her eyes, the scarf on her head, leopard print clutch and dark make up. Very strong and fashionable look this season. Also the shoot is great. I like the location and the creative shots from an abandoned house; the colour schemes and textures work great! 

Other shots from this shoot: (source: Designscene.net)

Self-Portrait Photography I featuring Lara Jade

I decided to do a feature on self-portrait photography for my graphics project where I am 'exploring myself' to find out 'who I am'. Many artists and photographers have tried to do this and one way of finding themselves is to see how they capture themselves on camera. What expression, make-up do they put on? Oscar Wilde once said 'Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.' and I believe can be applied to all mediums of art. 

Self Oct 08 by Lara Jade
I love this self-portrait by Lara Jade. This is emotive, vulnerable and very deep. Her eyes are so captivating and alluring. She's one of the most beautiful photographers I've seen and doing self-portraits with a face like hers is always a bonus! Lara Jade was one of the first photographers I really admired and was inspired to do photography before I knew all the famous photographer like Nick Knight, Mario Testino, Mert & Marcus etc  from magazines. I was too poor to buy the bulky fashion mags! Lara Jade has done many self-portraits, her very early work was mainly made up of this type of photography but I decided to chose one of her later photographs of herself due to her mature beauty and concept. I also love how she edits her photographs; in this particular one, I like the textured layers to create atmosphere and rough edge. I like how her fingers look like they're disjointed and her hair is tangled; she manages to look beautiful yet dark and slightly broken.

Here's some more of her beautiful self-portraits. I especially like her black/white self-portraits.















(no copyright infringement intended) © lara jade 2010


See more of her work (especially fashion) here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/

Self-Portrait Photography II coming soon.