Kayla Varley

Bellow I have created a comparison between mine and Kayla Varley’s images. As I studied and analysed her images earlier, I have been inspired to use aspects that I have learnt in my own photographs.

As the images I put together on the left have a bigger variety as they are of different people and different photoshoots, this is what creates a big difference between the single photoshoot I have done and different photographs that Kayla Varley produced. The similarities are that many of both mine and her images are that most of the outcomes are posed, meaning they are aimed and not “accidental” photographs, rather then capturing the moment, they are more constructed and planed. although her photographs are quite fun and usually of moving image, like the portrait of a woman with sand falling through her fingers, in the bottom right corner, or the moving photographs where women are laughing or you can see the movement in their hair, some of my images show that, especially the ones against the light. Describing mbellow my image with one of Kayla’s :

although aesthetically these images have a big difference between them, Like the colours, tones, pose, location, focus, other camera setting and editing, I want to include this relationship between her outcome of this specific photoshoot , and my outcome. this is because the following images of hers inspired me the most:

John E.Millais

Doing further artist research I’ve discovered John E.Millais’s artwork which links very well with the idea behind my images.

What I wanted to achieve with my final images is to represent a body of work that relates to performative arts, performative photography. I didn’t want ordinary photographs which are just a portraits created in the studio , where the model is serious and looking straight at the camera. I wanted to show a meaning of femininity in my final photographs, therefore I thought including an aspect of performative photography, regarding the posing, would write more of an interesting story.

Comparing my phot graph with a painting of Millais, there’s a bigger similarity between them rather then Kayla Varley’s work. As I got influenced but not one but many other artists, my photographs include a variations of different aspects that relate to different artists, for example what I have taken from Varley’s photographs, is the idea of movement, fun and femininity. This is why a series of images look more like hers. Although it was the same photoshoot, I have many outcomes that differ from each other, this is why the above image would link more to Millais artwork.

What is so similar between the artists is the idea of drawing inspiration from women. Millais artwork mainly includes women an children, and this is why I decided to model for this photoshoot so that I can have a female, not only representing women, and definition of femininity, but also a link to typical view of tableau artwork, where women would be the main inspiration used. Since I was producing a photograph that was influenced by historic realistic art, there’s a lot of element, especially in that photograph that show that, like the element of nature, the photograph is in fact in nature, performative art, dress, and a female model. another aspect that I regret not including is flowers, maybe holding flowers or having them in a photograph, this is because flowers are seen as a very feminine signature item, because of their beauty and history.

Overall I think I have shown aspect of both artist in different outcomes, however still including aspects of my own work into them, like the editing, composition, and framing. I like how well many link to a historical realistic artworks, but are more “modernised”. What I could improve is the outcomes that related more to Varley’s work, as these have less similarities.