Moodboard

This is just a simple mood board I made to give my models pose ideas to get them started and to help them feel more at ease during the shoot so they feel more confident as it goes on.

Portraiture – Facing the subject

Portraiture – Facing the subject
By Joanna Woodall

Critical introductions to Art

Portraiture occupies a central position in the mimetic culture of the west. The most popular genre of painting, it has been crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism. Yet its status within art theory remains uncertain and there is a dearth of sustained critical analysis of the subject. This book introduces major issues in portraiture and provides a coherent set of studies demonstrating critical perspectives from which these issues can be approached.   It establishes frameworks or interpretation which take account of recent shifts in the understanding of the human subject and representation. In particular, it enters into critical dialogue with dualist distinctions between mind and body, subject and object reality and representation. The volume is designed to fulfil the pronounced need for critical texts with which to teach courses on portraiture.

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize is the leading competition to celebrate and promote the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world.

The selected images are displayed at The National Portrait Gallery and explore both traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic portrait whilst capturing a range of characters, moods and locations. 

Past winners-

2014

 2013

 2012

 2011

Julian Woollatt

Again, Woollatt’s images are striking, mostly because of the subjects he photographs but also because of how he photographs them. Choosing strangers and asking them to pose for a photo gives his images a sense of reality and makes you realise that anything could have happened but in the end these are the photos he ended up capturing.