Bloom

I've been quiet on the blog lately and I do apologise I've had a busy summer!

My summer project for uni was based on the word 'Bloom' I admit I was slightly rushed for this project and will most likely reshoot but my model was lovely to work with and we had a fun day in the studio.

Layla Sailor

For my course I had to create a creative CV, which was then to be judged by 3 industry guests in the hopes of winning an internship. I was lucky enough to win a place with Layla Sailor, a freelance photographer based in Manchester who specialises in film making, prop-making and art direction. After hearing her talk about her work I was inspired and ecstatic that I was going to be able to assist her. 

Layla often collaborates with Lisa Stannard, who she met while studying and working in Manchester. Their collaborative work is exciting with Stannards' collections coming to life through Sailors' work. She also collaborates with jewellery designer wonderhaus, which again is based in Manchester, specialising in acrylic and plastic jewellery. I am in love with their Manchester skyline clear cuff!

Layla works a lot with colour, which started in her university days. Her work often has a Scandinavian feel to it, which she plays upon and adapts in different ways. Her style of work is different to y ow and I'm excited to see her processes and see how I can adapt what I learn to my own work.

You can view more work at http://www.laylasailor.com/

All shook up

So again I have been pretty poor with posting recently I would say it's due to illness and my uni project I handed in on tuesday but still they're not good enough excuses! So here is my final pictures from my uni project. This was a project based on food, art and fashion. The final piece came from different food experiences and visiting several galleries both in Manchester and London. I wanted to do something clean and sleek and chose to style mine so that it fitted in with AnOther magazine's editorials. Our accessories for this still life shoot had to be based on either s/s13 or a/w13 I chose s/s13 and based it on the pastel trend that is current.

Sacred Heart

Here are some of my Ballet shots from my shoot with Thea. For never modelling before she did a fantastic job. I made the dress she was wearing which was inspired by Alexander McQueen's autumn/winter 2008 collection. The shoot was for a perfume campaign which I called 'Sacred'. 

I love these images and was very pleased with how my final images turned out.

I can't wait to start my next project.

A game of chance and coincidence

So our final photo shoot for our 6 outfit editorial was shot in Manchester. We used a mix of colour and black and white film and a DSLR. I took the 35mm colour film photos. The 'narrative' of our shoot was to follow our model on a normal day out in manchester. We based it on the work of French Artist Sophie Calle - suite venitienne in which she followed a man she met at a party from Paris to Venice. 

Stylists: Danielle O'Brien, Sarah Niblett, Ciara Reddington and Poppy Seddon

Poppy Eliza x

Tie-Dye Dreams Take 2

So as promised here are the final images from our tie-dye photo shoot. As we had such a short time to complete the shoot there are a few details which are not as tied together as I would've liked but I think me and my group worked well together and came up with some great shots. I think I'm going to do some tie-dye and maybe start selling it round uni as it's a great, cheap, and interesting way to customise a basic white t-shirt!

Poppy Eliza x