My interpretation of Vee Speers

These images are my interpretations of Vee Speers portfolio, "The Birthday Party" but I also decided to mix it with her other portfolio "Thirteen" that was taken after The Birthday Party. These images were taken in the schools studio, but the top image I took myself with the self-timer. I tried to edit them like Speers by making the lighting look "intense" and turn the contrast and saturation down so there isn't much bright colouring. There wasn't really a message I was trying to tell with these images, I was just experimenting with the lighting, camera angles and different props. I loved the idea of The Birthday Party and Thirteen, I liked Speers' thoughts and ideas because they were unusual, but made beautiful photographs. I found it creative, and it also helps people remember their childhood, when they used to dress up and let their imagination run wild, or when they reached their teenage years and went through a stage of growing pains. This is a quote from Vee Speers about her work: "I don’t like to follow the crowd. I like to seduce, with images that are at once disturbing and beautiful, but leaving a space for the viewer to enter my world. My portraits combine elements which evoke conflicting emotions that can surprise the viewer, telling a story that is somewhere between fantasy and reality, the obvious and the unexpected."


(I took this image with the self-timer)