Sarah Moon

I love how these images use movement as a central part in creating the composition. They have a dreamy feeling due to the low contrast and soft focus. I feel this could work well with my concept. My previous images had a focus on keeping the details nice and sharp and making sure the colors and lighting are exactly how they should be. This was partially so that no one could say that I didn't mean to have something look a certain way and had just screwed up since i am taking self portraits. I feel though, now i can experiment with my process more, most likely in photoshop so I can still use my images from last semester. I like the borders and the mucking of tones, that adds to the dreaming feeling in Moon's work. Even in her color work, the colors are not vibrant and perfectly balances and perfectly in focus, the images work because they are purposely not any of these things.


Biography:


"Texture, surface, seeing, believing, dreaming. It is difficult to summarise Sarah Moon’s fantastical photography - almost thirty years of image making has made Sarah Moon a legend in her own lifetime. Well known for her very personalized commercial work since the early 1970s, Sarah has continued to investigate a world of her own invention without repetition and also without compromise."


Quotes:


"The dream world is quintessential to her work; her images lead us into a world bewitched. When men appear, her pictures move towards a more disturbing surrealism and a dangerous mystery is inferred. These are photographs in which the bizarre and unusual confront ordinary reality."- Michael Hoppen Gallery


"Sarah Moon’s current project Circus brings together the powerful ingredients of fairytale darkness, beauty and tragedy"- Micheal Hoppen Gallery

Gallery

Interview