Vee Speers – Birthday Party
“The immediacy of Vee Speers’ imagery is overwhelming. Faces look directly at the viewer creating a quietly dramatic tension urging a reaction. Speers’ earlier work in a series entitled ‘Bordello‘ constructed elaborate filmic interios of fantasy. Her new series ”The Birthday Party’ still presents us with a façade of fantasy but with a pared down aesthetic that amplifies the visual intensity through its simplicity. These portraits of children confront us with reminders of our own childhood, whereby a homemade costume can transform you into a superhero, princess, cowboy or soldier, poised for adventures and hours of fun and excitement. The escapes that these worlds of play can provide disclose the underlying realities of the modern world, wrought with conflict and violence. Looking at these photographs, Speers strikes a chord within us to trigger our own concerns in relation to today’s paranoid society. The emotive responses to her work divulge more about the viewer than the viewed.”
Laura Noble
via featureshoot
Geniale fotografiile ! Ce mi-ar placea sa fac si eu o asfel de serie !
foarte faine fotografii!
Si mie mi-ar placea sa gasesc români care sa faca astfel de serii. :)