Photoshoot, comparing colours

I wanted to post this alongside the Mantegna Saint Sebastian just because the colour palette interests me. Also the shapes of the shower shots with their contained-ness relate somewhat to the saint shots in my opinion. Saints are shown separate from the world, but not yet in heaven in some kind of 'saint box' with their martyrdom.

I'm trying to plan a new series of photos, and am becoming very interested in colour and relating the pictures to previous artist work, which I know is such a cliche but at the moment I can't stop myself. I don't want to manipulate any of the photos digitally, even though they are taken digitally. I want to set myself the rules that they are published how they are framed and taken and then stuffed in the scanner. A bit like Dogma rules in film making.

One more from the photoshoot

I really like the colours in this shoot ... how would you describe them - sallow, pale pea, urine ...

And another

from when I turned the water on - I like the face shapes - glasses, mouth ...

Taking different photos

I'm really trying to take photos different to those I've ever taken before. You know how you can settle into the tried and tested ways of looking at things? I'm trying to break those habits. But still take photos that are either interesting or useful for image making. Have been looking at the abstract expressionists with Matt (Miro, Kandinsky, Malevich) and using it to try and develop my way of seeing. Photography seems to help as you have to frame what you take.

Photoshoot down by the Thames

Just spent a half sunny half cloudy afternoon with the lovely and enchanting Kiran Groodoyal down by the Thames taking pictures. I posed about in black corset and velvet skirt, hair in loopy plaits wearing a bowler in a deckchair, on a bridge, on the Thames beach, by the fish lamp-posts at the Embankment. A few people took pictures of us taking pictures!

We stared at a couple lost in each other kissing and kissing and kissing and kissing ... how romantic.

Pictures of pseudo-Victorian romping available soon ...