Photographers

Zachary Rose
A Canadian photographer Zach Rose created the compilations of 'pet headz' which involves owners having their pets heads put on their bodies to make it look as if the animal has legs. I find this really effective, even though animals are used, because it has a sense of individuality, something that is unique and never before thought of, which creates such a simple but effective, aesthetically pleasing piece of art.

Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy is a London based professional photographer, who creates pictures of celebrities from all across the world. He has produced photos for issues in publications such as: Heat, Buzz, S Magazine, Glamour, M Celebs and NatMag.

With the professional background Kennedy has, he has gone on to photographing big named, globally known celebrities, such as Madonna, David Beckham, Lindsey Lohan, Dermot O'Leary, Michael McIntyre, Cheryl Cole, Kate Winslet, Leona Lewis, David Walliams and Kiera Knightley.

As well as working with many celebrities, he has worked for large business companies, to promote their products, sell their company to target markets, and national awareness.

Working for clothing brands such as River Island, Marks and Spencers, Lacoste,  Matalan and Debenhams. National institutions such as ITV, BBC and Sky Television. As well as one of the biggest camera businesses in the world - Nikon.

The reason as to why I like his photography is because it captures emotion on the models face. The colour palettes presented in  his images make them particularly aesthetically pleasing. His black and white photography is especially one of my favourite features of his, because they look so pure and captivating. With the initial idea to include black and white photography in my magazine I find this a real inspiration as a starting point, to help expand my ideas, not only through the practicality and interest with in the images he produces, but the way the models stand, the different lighting he uses, the camera angles he uses and the expressions made by the models in his pictures.

 

The reason however I wouldn't be able to recreate this kind of style because I don't have access to a larger range of professional lighting tools which enable him to create streams of light.

Steven Meisel

Meisel is an American photographer, widely known for his fashion style images in Vogue. He was born in 1954 and developed a fascination for beauty and models at a young age. in 1992, he photographed Madonna for her book called 'Sex'. As a young child, rather than playing with toys like normal children, he would always sit and draw women when he was bored. He used magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar as inspiration for his drawings. He dreamt of women from the high society like Gloria Guinness and Babe Paley, who 'personified to his eyes the ideas of beauty and high society'.

The reason as to why I like Meisel's photography as it is bursting with individuality and colour. The structure of each photograph always includes multiple amounts of people, which for a front cover isn't ideal, however would look aesthetically pleasing on the contents page, and the double paged spread. If I used something like this in my magazine it would capture the audiences attention. A negative of this would be that it could become the focal point, and in the double page spread especially I don't wish it to be, due to the fact the article is of a more important stage.

I wouldn't find it very easy to recreate one of Meisel's photographic arrangements because not only do I have to stick to a lean budget, and not splash out on hundreds of pounds, but it wouldn't fit my particular genre, unless the colour palettes become more pastille, and there isn't too much going on (e.g colour, number of models and props etc)