FIRST ANALYSIS - VEE SPEERS

Vee Speers

Factual

Vee Speers is an Australian photographer living in Paris. She studied fine art and photography in Brisbane which was followed by a five year career in Sydney with the ABC television as a stills photographer. A short stay in France in 1990 became a permanent move to Paris, which for Speers is a place with "unlimited potential and endless creative inspiration.

Speers first work was on a series of nudes which she photographed in Paris at former Bordellos. She photographed women as part of an extension of her learning ta school during art class. It was a way for her to interpret her meaning of the human form and how light and colour effect her work.
Another project that Speers worked on was a theme of birthday parties. She first shot this series on her daughter's 8th birthday where the children showed up dressed in costume as animals and other characters.

Context

These pictures are from a series called "Birthday Party" based on her child's 8th birthday party.

Technical

Speers used quite a high brightness level for the first girl whose skin, especially on the arm holding the bird, blends into the background. The other girls's brightness is also quite high as her collar blends in.

Aesthetic

The colours the girls are wearing are very natural colours that make her look quite innocent as it doesn't seem as though she stands out. Their hair is pulled back perfectly with both of them using a plait which also reinforces the theory of innocence as that so something I personally would associate with a young girl. I like how the girl on the right is very centered in the picture as if to make you look at her. The left girl seems more sweet and innocent than the girl on the right however-She is wearing a lighter colour suggesting she has a lighter personality and even though the bird she is holding is particularly light, she is holding an animal which makes me think she is trustworthy.