Avedon an experiment....!

Chipmunk

Gravesy

Belch

Guy

I looked at the works of Richard Avedon because he relys on expression rather than props or complicated compositions. I put people infront of the camera and simply asked them to be themselves, we chatted away and I snapped and chose photos which instinctively caught my eye, mostly because they've captured a moment. I wrote the focus' nicknames because I feel it added to the depth of the image: these are real people, not just images. I put them in the style of Avedon - and similar to that of Robery Mapplethorpe - with high contrast black and white. I touched them up so parts like their eyes and expressions were more the focus.