When I first attended a fashion show, I had no idea what I was doing, but I muddled through and got some pretty satisfactory images. Since then, however, I’ve refined my technique. Here are my top tips.
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Friday night marked the end of Norwich Fashion Week, with the highly-anticipated Fashion Excess Show. This show promised to combine live music with the catwalk, which I was super excited for.
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Last night (Tuesday), was the Designer's Show at Norwich Fashion Week. I was really excited for this show, particularly because I know two of the designers that were exhibiting: Kate Elizabeth and Nicolas Marcs.
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The Norwich Fashion Week Vintage Show took place last night, and I've never been to such a glittery event in my life! The music and styling was disco-themed, so the building had been redecorated with glitter and gold.
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Friday night was the Dipple and Conway Hair & Makeup show at Norwich Fashion Week. Having photographed the Retailer's Show the night before, I was super excited to get some more pictures of the creativity that Norwich had to offer.
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After relaunching my photography business, I was on Twitter one day and spotted that a local start-up, The Little Horse Box, was looking for a photographer. I immediately registered my interest and was told that they were launching their website, and were setting up a photoshoot in order to get images for their website and press release.
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For issue 7 of Parallel, I shot with Harnaam Kaur and Nik Hampshire for an editorial entitled "Let's Skirt the Issue". Harnaam Kaur, if you haven't heard of her, is Britain's "Bearded Dame". She suffers from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, which has led to excess hair growth - and resulting in one hell of a beard.
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When we decided on the theme for the next issue of Parallel, I instantly had an image in my head of what I wanted the cover to look like. Throughout university, I loved playing with colour in the studio, and making really bright portraits.
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On Monday, I headed to Norwich Fashion Jam to take some photographs. After a 24-hour challenge in which the participants were given access to clothing and scraps donated by Age UK and had to create new garments out of them, the event culminated in a show at Norwich Castle Museum amidst the exhibitions and stuffed animals.
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Today I met up with my good friend Charlotte Lipscombe, who has taken photographs of me and my boyfriend in the past (blog post here). She’s a member of the Parallel team and we’ve collaborated before, so when she agreed to model for me I was really excited!
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A couple of weeks ago, the opportunity came up to purchase a lens I had wanted for a really long time at a massive discount (thanks to my job): the Lomography 85mm f2.2 Petzval lens. The newly designed Petzval lens was released in 2013, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, and is based on an Austrian lens which originally came out in 1840.
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Born and raised in Chicago, IL to immigrant parents, Marcia X explores themes relating to the experience of the Diaspora, history, feminism, politics and socioeconomic issues.
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The Designer's Show took place on Tuesday 12th of March at Epic Studios and featured work by local designers and students. There was an amazing variety of garments and accessories on show, and I was particularly impressed with the younger, innovative designers of Norwich.
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On Friday I was lucky enough to have a shoot with local up-and-coming model Jude Wright, who I've been dying to set up a shoot with as soon as I spotted her a few months ago in a friend's images. We re-shot a few of the images I took a couple of a weeks ago, re-working them and playing with the lighting as well as working with several new dresses.
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The brief for the end of year project for the first-year Fashion students at NUA consisted of creating a collaboration between the work of a design house and that of a high-street brand, and creating a garment representing this.
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Yesterday, after staying up all night and then getting on a 4am coach, I was given the brilliant opportunity to take photographs at London Fashion Weekend, the aftermath of London Fashion Week that gives the general public the opportunity to watch catwalk shows and shop for designer goodies, as part of the Canon team.
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Not only did my AAA pass at Graduate Fashion Week allow me to access a lot of areas that were out of bounds for the general public, it also meant that I could get into the catwalk shows as a member of the press, blag a front-row seat, and photograph away to my heart's content.
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The backstage area of Graduate Fashion Week was guarded at all times by burly men in suits. My Access All Areas badge changed 3 times in the time I was in London, first consisting of a wristband, followed by a handwritten AAA on my Blogging Team badge, and finally an 'Access All Areas Graduate Fashion Week Photographer/Blogger' badge.
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