Assignment 4: Vee Speers

Get To Know Vee Speers
Vee Speers is an Australian photographer based in Paris. After studying at Queensland college of art, Speers worked as a still photographer for the ABC television. Since moving to France in the early 90's, Speers has worked in fashion, photojournalism and today is an established fine art photographer. Her work has appeared in many prestigious publications and has been exhibited in London, Paris, Japan, Italy, Tunisia and South America, as well as her native country. All of her photo's are a little strange and creative but this is because she doesn't like to follow the crowd. She likes to seduce, with images that are once disturbing and beautiful, but leave a space so viewers can enter her world. Her 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 unexpected.

This is her official home page:
Vee Speers Home Page
On her portfolio she has 5 different photo albums:
Thirteen
Immortal
The Birthday Party
Parisians
Bordello

In her first 3 albums, Thirteen, Immortal and The birthday Party, all of the images share the same elements.
They mostly all have the focal image in the center of the photo with all techniques used to enhance the person.
The background of the pictures are usually a simple, to detract from the background so you focus on the person.
In the Immortal album the backgrounds are all quite complicated but the image of the background is far away so you still pay attention to the person first.
In the albums, Thirteen and The Birthday Party she uses a simple white background so that the background is dull and boring, so you pay no attention to the background and full attention to the person.
She uses pastel type colours in her work to make the photos look soft. 
The last 2 albums, Parisians and Bordello are in black and white.
She uses the light and lighter colours on her focal points so that you are attracted to them.
She uses this technique a lot and personally I think this is what she is known for. I do like all of her photos because they are strange, yet imaginative. They all show different perspectives of people, reality and fantasy. Personally I like Thirteen the most because the story behind the album is very intriguing. Vee got the idea of the album on the year that her daughter was thirteen, the album is about her daughter growing up and growing through different stages of childhood. in the first picture, her daughter starts off with her back to the camera showing small feathered wings to show she is small and fragile. Then the last picture is her daughter is facing the camera, holding a nest. To me this portrayals that now she is older, she has the confidence to face things in life and the nest portrayals that she is settling down to become a young women.

Thirteen

Immortal

The Birthday Party

Parisians

Bordello

I have found a good slide show on slideshare.com that gives you more information on Vee Speers and her work:
Vee Speers Slideshow

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