EXPOSED PHOTOGRAPHY: ROZALIND WILLIAMS MODEL: CAPTIN'MAXIMUS RON MAKE-UP: CAPTIN'MAXIMUS RON RED DRESS: ASD LATEX LEAPORD PRINT SHOES: BANK BLACK SHOES: ATMOSPHERE BLACK DRESS: MISFITZ ALTERNATIVE WEAR ARTWORK ON SILVER RACK: JAKE BENNETT
With so many trying their hand at being a photographer these days, how do you keep your style fresh and exciting? A little while ago I was shooting a friend of mine who has a brilliant, loud wit and masses of glamorous dirty blonde ringlets, she’s one of these people who exudes sunshine. I photographed her in a top hat and tails and I asked her to look at me very sternly. They were okay, I suppose. But, just before I was about to call it a day I spotted my hair dryer on the floor of my studio. I turned to her and said “I have an idea…but it’s a little bit weird.” We took a few shots of her blowing her hair back, laughing, dancing, even pretending to wrestle with it in a simple flannel shirt and they were infinitely better than the previous set. She was never going to be a top hat and tails kind of girl, I was trying to force her to be; it was like shoving a hilarious lion into a tux. At that moment I learned a valuable lesson. If you go with Mother Nature it doesn’t even have the possibility of going stale or being boring or stuffy. To create a character is great, reliable, stable and steady; to find a character and let them be who they are in front of your lens can surprise the daylights out of you, turn your ideas about-face and blow your mind. If you could be in charge of Rebelicious for a week, what would you do? I like the set up you already have, Rebelicious. Though if I were in charge I’d do an interview special and talk to all the interesting people I could and add beautiful textures to back them with and write them in beautiful fonts, along with their accompanying artwork. I think that’d be great fun to make and look at. Finally is there anything that you would like to say to our readers? “Never fault a teddy bear for having a shorter neck than a giraffe”. The best advice I’ve ever been given.
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