Mario Sorrenti (location unit research)

Mario Sorrenti

Garrett Overbey photographed by Mario Sorrenti for Vman magazine issue #28

Mario Sorrenti is a NYC based photographer and director with a lot of influence in the both the fashion and music industry. He was born in 1971 in Naples, but his family relocated to NYC when he was 10-yrs-old. Sorrenti has shot several top-tier models for magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.He was also the talented photographer behind the iconic images of Kate Moss for the Calvin Klein Obsession perfume ads. In the music realm, he has shot album covers for Shakira, soul singer Maxwell ,and in 2013, he shot Canadian rapper Drake for a covershoot in GQ magazine.

Terry Richardson (location unit research)

Terry Richardson is a very well known photographer based in New York he is most well known for his studio sessions with celebrities such as Jonah Hill, Kate Moss and the rap collective Odd Future.Throughout his career, Richardson has shot the campaigns of fashion brands and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Aldo, Supreme, Sisley, Tom Ford, and Yves Saint Laurent. He has also done work for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, and Vice. Opinions on Terry Richardson vary greatly within the celebrity and fashion worlds some see him as an extremely talented fashion and studio photographer and others see his as an untalented hipster wannabe photographer but either way his talents clearly cant go unnoticed because of the recognition he has earned for his work.

Terry Richardson

Tyler the creator and Lucas Vercetti photographed by Terry Richardson

Mario Testino (location unit research)

Mario testino

Mario Testino is a very well renown fashion photographer born on October 30th 1954 in Lima Peru. His work has been featured in many well known fashion magazines such as Vogue and vanity Fair, the highest point in Testinos career was when he was chosen by princess Diana for her Vanity Fair photoshoot in 1997, he has been hired by the royal family regularly ever since then.

Kate moss photographed by Mario Testino

Testino has become one of the world's most well known fashion photographers. His work has been featured across the globe, and he has crafted and contributed to the imagery of leading high fashion brands such as Burberry, Gucci, Versace, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Salvatore Ferragamo, Estee Lauder and Michael Kors, and many more As well as having published seven books of his work and edited one other dedicated to contemporary art and artists from his native Peru, Mario Testino has had many successful exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world.In 2011, Testino was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The Royal Photographic Society. These are awarded to distinguished photographers, for their position or attainments, He was presented with an honorary OBE on 14 January 2014 by UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey.

Keegan Gibbs (Taste Of Digbeth research)

Keegan Gibbs is a photographer who is not quite in the ranks of "famous" photographers yet so is very hard to find information on even on the internet but i have followed his work by checking on up on his website regularly for a few months now and my favorite set of  photographs he has released are the ones he took in New York whilst following round street artists whilst they do their work, i found this photo set particularly interesting because of the whole retro feel to it it almost looks like some of the shots could have been taken in the early 90's from the overall grainy gritty aesthetic they have.

Because i don't live anywhere near the Digbeth area and hadn't seen any of it before we started this project i didn't really know what to base my project around but as soon as i started exploring the area the first thing i noticed was the amount of graffiti and that is what made me want to use Keegan as part of the research for this project.

Taste Of Digbeth

I shot all of these pictures in monochrome to capture the detail in the images for some of them I have used two different versions one darker and one lighter I did this to show how you can change the mood of a picture just by editing it in Photoshop, I changed the brightness and contrast to achieve this effect I also edited the sharpness on all of the images to add more detail and to make the images more crisp, The main focuses of the images are street art, urban landscapes, textures and abandoned areas.

Ben de Biel (taste of digbeth research)

Ben de Biel is the photogapher that best documented the dereliction and fast-paced mutation of East Berlin's Mitte district in the 1990. 'Artiste bohème', squat activist, legendary club owner, Ben is an icon and prime witness of the post-Wall Berlin. Since the early 90's, he relentlessly captures on film the daily changes that occured in his Mitte district, archiving the documents, accumulating raw material year after year.

I have chosen to research Ben De Biel because for my project on Digbeth i will be exploring the run down areas because i think they are a lot more interesting to photograph than the normal buildings and surroundings in the Digbeth area, i will also be taking all of my photographs in monochrome/black and white because i believe it gives the images a lot more life and makes them more aesthetically appealing as when you think of run down abandoned places you don't think of how bright the colours are or how much variation there is in the colours in the places you think of gloomy and dark which is hard to capture in full colour photographs but in black and white you can really capture the mood of the places.

Depth Of Field

urban landscapes

This set of photographs were all taken in the Digbeth area to add variety to them I have used different techniques in Photoshop instead of different settings on the camera, the focus of these images is to show how in "urban" areas even though from far away they all look very similar these is a lot of variation even in this one area.

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Dom Sebastian

Dom Sebastian is a photographer, fashion designer, graphic artist and painter known very well by his target audience on sites such as tumblr, his photography work definitely has a very unique style each month he releases a different project whether it is a new clothing item or photo set i am always impressed, but his photography is the main reason i looked into him in the first place, i saw this image one day whilst on tumblr and it got my attention straight away i love the use of different colours of lighting and how strong the shadows are and the overall dreamy surreal look to it. I will try to use the coloured lighting effects in my studio photography work

Ralph John Perou

Ralph John Perou

Professional Career 

After graduating in 1994 Perou worked at Click Studios in London as a studio manager where he met many of the world’s leading photographers of the time, other assistants and the people behind Dazed & Confused magazine.

It was during his time at Click Studios that Perou learned photography professionally. He started shooting for editorial clients like Time Out, Skin Two and Dazed & Confused magazines. He also started shooting bands, following work that he did with his friends who were in the band Elcka.In 1995, Perou moved to the first floor of a converted fire station in Old Street, London. Shortly after, Dazed & Confused relocated to the ground floor of the same building and Perou started working on the picture desk with the photographic director, Phil Poynter. Perou continued to shoot for magazines and record companies and left Dazed & Confused around 1997.