Man Ray

Man Ray was an American born, French photographer. He was a painter for 35 years but always enjoyed photography and once said it was like living two lives and he was also known for his sculptures. He used black and white film and was one of the first people to do so. For a long time he studied photograms and eventually make many of them, including shorts films using them. His first major work was a patchwork, neither photography or painting, and was influenced by Picasso and cubism.
Man Ray was fond of his chess sets that he had made himself and used them a lot in his photographs and paintings. Often in his portraits work, if he wasnt using the chess board he would use different props too make the images more interesting.

David Severn

David Severn is a Nottingham based fine arts photographer, aged 21. He enjoys photographing people and places, including people in their environments including his own where he grew up.

David Severn

David Lachapelle

Davids career started in the 1980's, when he began showing his work in New York City galleries. His work caught the eye of Andy Warhol , who gave him his first photography job at the Interview Magazine before long he was shooting for a variety of top editorial publications and creating some of the most memorable advertising campaigns of his generation. His images have featured in many magazines all over the world including; Italian Vogue, French Vogue, i-D, Vanity Fair and the Rolling Stone. He has also photographed many famous celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mohammed Ali. After a very successful career as a photographer he decided to branch out into directing and shooting music videos, theatrical events and documentary films. His directing credits include; Britney Spears, Florence and The Machine and Jennifer Lopez.

David Lachepelle

Rebecca Beinart

Brian Griffin

Rebecca Beinart

Rebecca is a Nottingham based artist and did a three year course of Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. While at university she became interested in how art could be an experience. Things she made were visual but shown as an event. Later on, she went on to study a MA- Art and Ecology in devon, the course was experimental and was taught by many different people such as writers, artists and scientists. She enjoys working with people from all different disciplines such as graphics, photographers, cooks and other areas. She works alone and with groups to get their opinions on facts or her work.

Brian Griffin

He started and still uses a film camera for over 40 years, although he was this experience he only has a diploma and not a university degree. The reason for this is because when he was younger his family were not supportive and did not encourage him to take up a career in photography, but he still decided to complete a diploma in photography and once he had done that he travelled, which inspired him too take alot of documentary styled images of whatever he came across.
He has many inspirations, two of them bing Tony Ray Jones, Casper David Fredreick and Barney Bubbles, he said they inspired him and thinks everybody could take some kind of influence from him. He had work with Barney Bubbles on many of his portraits as he illustrated them and also took many portraits of him in his flat using items that he found around. Although his lighting and many studio parts were made by himself as he didnt have alot of money. He always knew that he wanted to be a photographer and even though he knew this is took alot of time for people to acknowledge him and his work.

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz is a freelance photographer, meaning she has no boss who focuses mainly on commercial work. She is best known for her celebrity portraits and fashion images, she photographs big name celebrities such as John Lennon, Demi Moore, Dolly Parton, Keira Knightly, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson. She tries to say no to any jobs and uses them all as experience. Annie thinks that a photographers life is "a life looking through a lens". She has 3 children and she does full time work all over the world so she lives a very busy life trying to manage the two. 

Final Images

Initial Ideas;

At first i had an idea to take pictures of a range of tattoos, both beautiful and unattractive ones.
The thought behind this idea is that people have different opinions on tattoos, some people think that tattoos are art but others think that they are a waste of time and pointless.
In the end, i had to change my idea because of the lack of time and models that i had, i only had under two weeks to plan and shoot my images which was not enough time.
Due to this set back, i changed my idea to taking images of people with a sign infront of there faces. The sign include writing about what beauty means to them, i decided to this because it will be quick but effective.

introduction

 Introduction;
For this project, i have to create three pictures based on the theme of Beauty and The Beast.
I have three weeks to complete this project, and at the end our images will be entered into the Harman's Beast And the Beast competition. The images must be A4 digital images.