ASSIGNMENT 5- POST 1

VEE SPEERS

• STYLE: Vee Speers has an extremely unique style. Her work is very different to most peoples. As she has written on her website "I don't like to follow the crowd" she likes to be unique. Her style is disturbing and beautiful both at the same time. Her images tell a story of something that is somewhere between fantasy and reality. Some of her photos are more complex than other like 'Bordello' and 'The Parisians', however 'Thirteen' and 'The birthday party' are very simple and are only taken against some sort of white background. Also 'Thirteen' and 'The birthday party' have been taken in colour, but 'The Parisians' and 'Bordello' have been taken in black and white.
• TECHNIQUE: Most of Vee Speers collections use very simple backgrouds, but this is very effective. She also uses very interesting costumes and hairstyles to bring her photographs to life. For example in 'The birthday party' Speers used subtle hand-tinted color techniques on top of the original black-and-white Polaroid prints to added effects. I think that in many of her photographs, she has used a digital DSLR camera to really capture the sharpness in each of the photos that she has taken. I also i think that she uses a very high quality piece of editing software like photo shop to make her photographs more supernatural.
• NARRATIVE: I think that there is a very in depth story behind every single photo taken by Vee Speers. For example in the 'Immortal series' Speers uses models with a saddening background. The photos from this album are the characters from the birthday party grown up. It is showing that the models are almost angels that have fallen from heaven.