PENNY SMITH
Meet the Photographer
I really love including female photographers as inspirations to my work, I think art and photography are such make dominated industries that it is really cool to highlight the women in this career. Penny smith is an English photographer born in 1949, her most famous works include images of the clash, but other people she photographed include Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Iggy Pop, Sweet, the Jam, the Slits, Siouxsie Sioux, Debbie Harry, U2, Morrissey, the Stone Roses, Radiohead, Blur and Oasis.
So many of her images are finished with a high level on contrast, I really like this element to her images as it gives them a clarity and a sense of emotion and movement. Due to this I tried to emulate her use of high contrast in most of my images.
This is because I feel as though the high contrast makes the subjects look raw and exposed in a way as the harsher light on parts of the portraits allow moser detail and clarity to be gained.
