Street photography is a hard exercise. The challenge is to find nice compositions, complex places in order to highlight the model. In facts, the model is the most important piece in a picture, which is making the background really hard to choose: it needs to fit the model while highlighting it, but not to make the picture too cluttered. This shooting shows “classic” Bordeaux Street places. The details are in the good proportion of colours, buildings, lights, poses…
The first pictures respect the 60, 30 and 10 percents: black, white and red are the main colours, creating an immersive scene for the model to stand out, with a dark dress keeping a unicolor theme, going with the hairs and makeup. In the history of fashion, cigarettes embody an attitude: independence, confidence, sensuality… with the influence of other feminine models such as Monica Bellucci, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski…
The next series of pictures contains a background composed of multiple posters: a classic go-to in order to illustrate the mess we can find on the walls of big cities, a controlled mess. In facts here, with a majority of white and squares, the mess become a perfect background in order to highlight the model, still in dark, glowing by her skin, beauty, poses… The flash, combined with the angles, is what brings this light to the model,`allowing her to be the main piece of this collection and to express herself in this controlled city mess.
The next series is the perfect way to end, with less complex backgrounds. Now, it’s only the model and the camera. Still with the intention to keep this “street” theme, the trashcan and suitcase were both found in the streets, adding to the history and contrasting with the model, luxurious, well dressed… With closer shots, it is easier to look at her, and to clearly see her emotions, more natural, in the moment. This collection is creating a big interest in its “street photography” theme. Respecting major rules of photography, contrasting with brute places in the city of Bordeaux.
