Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Sean Ellis



Sean Ellis work is simply amazing!!! He has trained as a still life photographer and has worked on editorials with magazines such as i-D, The face, Visionaire, Arena, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar. His fashion photographs contains elements of still life images, where Ellis has consciously played with lighting to capture the simplistic beauty of his subject. In other editorials his play with shadow greatly captures the complexity of the dark side of fashion, evoking a strong emotional response from viewers. One of my favourite editorials is "The Clinic" in The Face magazine's March 1997 issue, which was styled by Isabella Blow. This editorial looks at the darker side of fashion - it focused on the body in fashion as being a traumatised object, using it within the context of the gothic genre.





This would have to be my favourite shot - I just love the silhouette in this shot and the story behind it, where the model's body is a puppet, where fashion is the puppeteer determining the formation of the body.

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