Research on photographers/graphic designers

Andrew G Hobbs

Hobbs’ work takes on many styles, colourful and monochrome. His models show a lot of emotion in gestures and facial expressions. His work has appeared in British Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and he has had ad campaigns for Nike and Louis Vuitton. The photographs which use colour appear to have been taken on a white background with the colour edited afterwards as it is often more intense and unusual than could be achieved using coloured lights and backgrounds. When I first saw the images the colour stood out to me as the key focus of his images, making the photo much more extreme and dramatic. The first image stands out as the model is wearing black clothes and the natural colours of her skin make her very dull against the highlighted background. The colour in the third image also stands out as edited as it much pinker than there would be naturally and brightness appears to have been increased. I particularly like the second image which is monochrome and makes the model's freckles stand out. The model looks deep in thought and sad which is shown through her facial expressions, her slightly parted lips and looking away from the camera, but the positioning of her too, leaning against the wall. The last image is an action shot which has been used to show the colours within the model's skirt and to make this the attraction.

Jan Welters

Welters is known for known for capturing the darkness and movement of fashion within unusual environments. A lot of his photographs are taken close up often only capturing the facial features of the model. Welters is a photographer for Paris, German and American editions of Vogue as well as French and British Elle and Italian Glamour as well as doing ad campaigns for Mango and Nina Ricci.

Jan welters takes much more unusual pictures, often using extreme close ups of just the model’s face showing the emotion and work of colour. Although his work is mostly monochrome when colour is used it is used to create an extreme effect that produces a non-naturalistic style.

His second image shows the unusual nature to his photography and how the focus is often on just the head of the model. The bottom two images show the use of colour and how, in the first image, the eye make-up corresponds to the nail colour to create a frame around the model’s face and to create impact. In the second coloured lights have been used to create an unusual shadow on the model’s body and her skin appears shiny to increase this effect.

Stefan Sagmeister & Jessica Walsh

Sagmeister ad Walsh is a design firm that creates adverts, websites, film, books and more. They have produced art for Jay-Z, Warner Brothers Records, the New York Times and the Olympic committee.

Sagmeister is a graphic designed that has worked for the rolling stones and had his work mounted in countries all over the world. He teamed up with Walsh who is a designer and art director. For these inspirational images they worked alongside photographer Henry Hargreaves. I immediately loved these pieces of work when I found the duo as not only were they completely original and bold but they were genius. They have created a new style of inspiring people with unusual materials that, when added to a simple yet beautiful image, create an incredible after effect.  The second, third and fourth style images are my favourite as a lot of time would have to have gone into them to create simple words that create the inconceivable illusion of bubble-gum, liquid and blue powder.