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For me the style of my work will be the centre piece to its success and so I am very reliant on developing a tasteful aesthetic, a lot of photography has inspired me and Jack Eames work is definitely one of them. Specifically the way he brings such a clinical appearance to his fashion work whilst still incorporating a gritty urban back drop, for me this makes the models and their high fashion wear stick out of the photograph.
Jack Eames Fashion photography
I hope to create the same engagement in my work but instead of using a studio back drop, I will take my models to the street just as William Klein did but will aim to create a clinical feel when focused on the model, juxtaposed with the realism of the streets.
William kleins photography fascinates me especially the way he manages to create such feeling and emotion from a simple headshot of a model, however its his full body street fashion photography I am more interested in. Replicating the physical lines of the street with his fashion wear he aesthetically brings the model as close to the street as possible.
William Klein Piazza Di Spagna
This I think will prove to be very hard but I cannot help but take influence from it as it incorporates everything I love about street photography. His fashion works almost hide the high fashion aspect in the busy settings but this for me makes it much more stimulating and fun, it brings fashion into the forefront of the 'little peoples' lives and thats exactly what I want to do.
Dianne Arbus and her focus on the deviant marginal groups of people has given me yet another angle specifically influencing my fashion street work, I want to incorporate an element of homelessness among other topics into my fashion shoots yet again highlighting the contrast of high fashion wear to what really happens on the streets. Homeless people are just as marginalised as the dwarfs, transvestites and circus performers that Dianne photographed although they get a lot less coverage. Just last week a homeless person was murdered near the train station where I now live, and not long before that I had interviewed and photographed a fair few of them in Winchester city centre learning that over three hundred people are turned away every year from a homeless shelter that can house only fifteen. I found myself praying it wasn't one of the people I had met and so engaging this feeling into my photographs I hope will influence others enough to feel the same way and highlight the fact that although we live in our own self centred pretentious lives it doesn't hurt to delve into other peoples, the people's that have less. It is the high fashion clothing that will hopefully allow me to establish this link to the upper classes.
I have looked at Tom Gralish's photography of the homeless for inspiration into some of my shots and locations, he was asked to photograph the homeless through portraits but instead he followed them through their day to day lives meeting and talking to them really gaining their perspective on life, he managed to capture some outstanding candids of the truth that is their lives and I hope to let these images play a part in influencing the composition of my photo shoot.
