Again... I am fond of the texture of the backdrop, but in my case would add colour.

Nick Knight

As soon as I came across this photograph by Nick Knight, I fell in Love. Not only does this image smell for me, it is colourful yet also very dark and atmospheric. The contrast with the flowing watery background and the dark purple figure of the model really made me look. An idea I have is to shoot the model in a studio with a fuzzy, watery background that I could paint, shoot it in black & white and after it has been printed paint over the photograph and then scan it back in to digitalise the image. This could be an idea for one of my images.

Sony Advertisement

Although this image doesn't shout at you 'PERFUME' it is one of the first images that came to me when given the brief. I think it was perhaps the boldness of this Sony Advertisement, the colours, the paint... An idea which I thought of inspired by this was to cover a whole street in water soaking, and have a model standing in the middle of this empty road with paint splashed across her hair and face, not so dense, but watered down liquid colours, or perhaps something similar to this the make-up artist could produce. I would like the paint to drip down her clothes and in to the puddles on the road. This might sound messy, but it will not be as messy as it sounds, I am sure it can work.

Purple Flowers

I would like to use a variety of purple/blue toned flowers as part of the headpiece for the model, as purple is cpl's primary colour. I will be shooting a series of 10 different images and select the final 3 at the end. Half of which will be shot in a studio, half on location in the evening.

Katsuya Kamo- Head Pieces

Katsuya Kamo is a Japanese hairstylist & make-up artist who I really admire. I originally saw his work on a Japanese documentary around 3years ago. He became famous through his headpeaces he made for Comme des garcons for designer Junya Watanabe. His work is experimental and he often works with found, unused objects creating solid, structured shapes. I am looking at these pieces as Kamo often uses objects found in nature, such as bird feathers, branches, leaves and flowers. I feel rather than taking a classical approach to the CPL brief, I would like to experiment with making my own head pieces, backdrops, find objects that I feel represent smells, find flowers, leaves, and create a scene that really smells that could be seen as a found place, wild.