Model Asha Porteous photographed by Pedro Bonatto with make up by Olena Al.
Here is the first photo in a series I created in collaboration with make up artist Olena Al and model Asha Porteous inspired by Kintsugi. Kintsugi is a Japanese pottery practice where you repair broken artifacts with gold to ‘glue’ the broken parts. The idea is that the object becomes more beautiful exactly because it was broken and put together.
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After weeks working on proposals and grants for a new music and dance project I got a chance to get back to some photography work yesterday, creating sets and transforming my home studio into different imagined worlds.
Read MoreHere I talk about the process of sorting, selecting and editing 7000 photos down to about 50. I also show how I'm going to use 'oriental' patterns on the backgrounds of some images.
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Shooting in Cyprus for 'The Orientalist'. Photo by Olesha Astman.
An update from the road with some lessons learned.
Read MoreSometimes a location can inspire a shoot as much as a person or a concept. Here I explore how a space became a key component of a photograph.
Read More"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again", as J.M. Barrie said in Peter Pan. Here I explore how different elements inspire ideas and and further develop a concept.
Read MoreSometimes it takes a long time for things to start suddenly. In this post I talk about the genesis of the idea for the series and how a creative collaboration with a dancer started the project.
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