Everything in Excess is Opposed to Nature.

Some more images from my "Excess of Space" shoot.

35mm colour negative.

Styling: Marina Magalhaes 

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Make-Up and Hair: Laura Goya

Models: Rachel H at Sapphires and Lora Hayes

Clothing Designs by Suzannah Punchard
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These are some photos from the shoot day, a very long but very fun day in South London...

My puny 5'3" stature trying to measure up to Rachel's statuesque 5'11" plus huge heels... I had to stand on an upturned bucket to photograph her properly! 

Lovely Rachel and Lora...

Marina and my medium format camera... I'm not sure why it looks so massive here...

Laura and Rachel - Makeup retouch...

Marina dressing Lora in a piece by Alice Overington...

Rachel and Marina...

Fun day, great shoot, wicked team.

Excess of Space... a Contradiction in London.

Stylist Marina Magalhaes and I recntly sumbitted to a magazine who's theme was Excess... but we took this stimulus in a different direction and decided to shoot on the theme of "An Excess of Space" where the model would appear secondary to the blank canvas of a vast landscape. These are a couple of Polaroids similar to those we submitted: 

Styling: Marina Magalhaes 

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Make-Up and Hair: Laura Goya

Model: Lora Hayes

I am really happy with how the shoot went, but the process of finding a suitable location to convey this idea made me feel very homesick and disenchanted with London. I spend several days searching the city for a big space that was empty yet still interesting, and I actually found plenty but they were all contained within high fences and covered in signs saying things like "trespassers will be prosecuted" and I learnt the hard way that no space is free to roam in London.

We ended up shooting in a park using clever cropping to create the illusion of space. It worked out fine but it made me really miss the open spaces of the countryside.

In the Strongest Conjuration

I know I've spoken a bit about my childhood in the Isles of Scilly before and how it's been a really big influence on myself and my photography, but I went home recently and thought maybe it's worth explaining a little bit more about this ridiculous and magical place.

Twenty-eight miles of the South West tip of Cornwall there is a little archipelago of islands called the Isles of Scilly and this is where I grew up before I moved to London to study fashion photography. The population of the islands is about 2,000 and you can only get there by boat, plane or helicopter.

I love going back whenever I can to see my friends and family and appreciate how utterly beautiful the landscape is and how fortunate I am to come from this place. These photos show the kinds of things we islanders get up to.

The islands from the sea...

Me looking super happy in the bow of my friend's boat. Shortly after this picture was taken I got completely soaked by a wave...

My mother and grandfather walking on the top of one of the uninhabited islands with Round Island lighthouse in the distance...

My sexy friends Abby, Emma and Jen looking dreamy in bikinis...

Relaxing on the beach... this is in England I promise...

Some of my friends chasing us in their boat...

  

Frank Roberts, my granddad...

My lovely mother...

My granddad catching shrimps at low tide... 

Me on the beach... that island behind me is called Teän too, I was named after it...

Far too many people and a massive dog in a boat...

I'm going back in a few days again for my friend's birthday, I absolutely can't wait.

A Garden. I've Stolen a Garden.

This year was my first time at Secret Garden Party and I think it's already my favourite festival, even though I was only there for two days. It's a really small and intimate festival, which I loved, but more than that I loved how totally magical it felt to be there. The site was utterly beautiful, full of incredible installations which it made it so easy to get caught up in a fantasy. I spent most of my time playing the part of a Hackney fox in a bespoke animal hood created by the lovely people at Merrimaking.

 

Can't wait for this again next year, but before that I think the hood will get some more use at Bestival in September... so excited for this I've already started bulk buying body glitter.

Don't Forget to Write

I apologise for my absence and lack of posting anything lately, I have been having a little bit too much fun since graduation, and I've been lazy. But I have been taking pictures...

There have been parties...

And days in the sunny London parks...

And day trips to Brighton to see the sea...

 

And many more fun adventures, which the next few posts here will detail. I promise to get wholeheartedly back into being creative and documenting it here.

Thanks for reading.

Rise with Your Red Hair and Eat Men Like Air

I did a shoot a few days ago and took some pictures with my new Polaroid back. It worked brilliantly as did the whole shoot, we had an amazing team and a beautiful location. I'm in the process of editing everything now but these are two Polaroids I took of model Rachel for her agency, who wanted a more commercial style of picture.

I am in love with her beautiful red hair set against these wild flowers!

Styling: Marina Magalhaes 

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Make-Up and Hair: Laura Goya

Model: Rachel H at Sapphires

I am a Material Girl

So I don't normally get ridiculously overexcited about technical cameray things, preferring to shoot with old cameras of my grandmothers, or lomos or box brownies... but when this came in the post for me today it filled my heart with happiness:

It's a Polaroid back for my Hasselblad all of my very own!

Previously I always had to borrow them from school but now I own this one... and the experience has effected me more than I expected. 

Now that I have this cheeky new addition to my kit I feel more confident and prepared for upcoming shoots somehow and this has made me realise how important instant film is to me.

I enjoy working with all types of film bur I think Polaroid is by far the most magical, and  I think it's the one film type that I feel most connected to. Can't wait to try it out!