Metz & Racine
Barbara Metz and Eve Racine 'Metz & Racine' founded their photographic studio in 2000. The pair met when they were both studying a BA in photography at London college of communication. Their collaborative relationship has brought together their passion for colour, art, story telling, food and fashion.They have been published in Vogue, V Mag, ID, Dazed and Confused, Wallpaper and more. Their client range from Louis Vuitton to Magnum to Channel 4.
I am most interested in Metz & Racines still life images.The photos that I found most obviously relevant to my project were the two shown bellow. As I am looking to portray a 'broken Britain' using traditional English objects I feel that the cups, saucers etc are very appropriate. Their images show a dinner set designed by Gary Card. A dinner set is often seen as an every day necessity but they are made to seem interesting and to resemble a sculpture by the way that they have been composed.
I am most interested in Metz & Racines still life images.The photos that I found most obviously relevant to my project were the two shown bellow. As I am looking to portray a 'broken Britain' using traditional English objects I feel that the cups, saucers etc are very appropriate. Their images show a dinner set designed by Gary Card. A dinner set is often seen as an every day necessity but they are made to seem interesting and to resemble a sculpture by the way that they have been composed.
I Have taken a few snap shots of my own dinner set arranged in various positions to give myself an idea of the formations that are feasable.I found that using pieces all from the same set blended the objects together too much. This could be resolved by either using a set with a simple pattern in my images or to use random bit from different sets which could be interesting.
Unfortunately I have not yet been able to post the next image directly to the blog so will provide a link.
I chose To look at this image as I find it very beautiful. The colour selection within the image I feel is its main feature because although the colours are bold, they also compliment each other. The plain background and surface are in keeping as they are two of the main colours used in the dinner set but by having them plain has drawn all of the attention to the objects. The lighting in the image is bright and causes quite minimal shadowing. I feel that the lighting needed to be bright as the images portrays spring by using flowers, butterfly's and fruits. I hope to research more photographers that typically use similar lighting to this as I think I may wish to use it within my own photographs.
