'Obsession' Shoot with Tim Macpherson

Here's myself hard at work on the 'Obsession' Shoot with Tim Macpherson and Gemma Fletcher his art director from Getty Images.

Tim Macpherson website www.timmacpherson.com

Part 2 Of the 'Obsession' shoot with Tim Macpherson

I did manage to make the second part to Tim Macpherson's 'Obsession' shoot. I'm so glad I did. Tim is seriously talented, not just in his photography but in his design skills and his attention to detail. I cant wait till he sends me the final images. The time that we spent building these sculptures was phenomenal. Gemma, Tim's Art Director from Getty Images worked amazingly and so hard to get these sculptures looking just right with Tim.

It's been weeks and months for Tim to finally put all the elements together but the images are so strong and looking really good. Keep your eyes peeled on my blog because as soon as i receive them I will put them on here....or go to his website underneath.

Great shoot

Great man

Great times........

Tim Macpherson website www.timmacpherson.com

Working with Frank Herholdt

We have a lot of work to do but hopefully we will be getting the chance to assist in Frank Herholdt's photography shoots in Cornwall at the end of May. We - (The Team) have over 70 models to cast, locations to find, props to organise.....It's going to be quite a big shoot and thats without the assisting. Looking forward to having the opportunity of working alongside Frank Herholdt. He is a massive photographer and well respected.

Here is a behind the scenes video of one of Franks shoots for Brooks saddles.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/667836/Fox_final-YouTube%20pal-H264_Small.mov

www.frankherholdt.com

Part 2 of the 'Obsession' shoot with Tim Macpherson

I have been invited back by Tim for the second part of the 'Obsession' portraits. Hopefully I will be able to make it, as this will be amazing to experience the second part.

Tim Macpherson website www.timmacpherson.com

Up And Coming Exhibitions

I am hoping that I will be exhibiting my 'Scotophobia' series in the 'Royal Cornwall Hospital' where the images were actually took, sometime this summer or just after.

'Obession' shoot with Tim Macpherson

Hi guys,

Just arrived back from Dorset where I have been working as Tim Macpherson's assistant for his 'Obsession' shoots which will be featuring in his new promotional work and book.

Tim was a pure gentleman and taught me so much whilst I was there for 2 days. His work is very creative and artistic and I am hoping to work with him on some of his other projects in the future.

Stuart

Tim Macpherson website www.timmacpherson.com

Working progress 'The WE-C School Project'

All these pictures were taken by a 4 year old on a small digital camera on automatic setting mode. We are trying to figure out what is stimulating the child's mind into taking these images

We at stuartelliottphotography are trying to set up a project which challenges the asethetics of the photograph and of the medium when related to children.

The idea behind the program is to work with children accross Cornwall, between the ages of 5 and 10 to get the children participating in the visual medium photography. We want to set children specific tasks as to what area they can photograph in and then collect the images and start analysing the outcomes.

We want to discover the innocence that a child has at an early age through the 'visual language' known as photography. We will also be challenging parents to see if they recognise their own childs work and therefore to investigate that relationship and genetic bond between the child and parent.

This will hopefully be generating media attention as we move from school to school once the project is up and running fully. We will be inviting critics to come and challenge what we are doing and investigate our findings that we discover.

Throughout this whole process the core vision is to investigate how our children in todays society are responding to the visual language of photography and also to see if the children are being effected each year as they are exposed to more visual images and media on a daily basis. We are also trying to introduce children to the medium at an early age which can only be beneficial and educational.

We will be exhibiting the findings/prints after the data is collected and a formula has been put together, but these prints will ultimately be auctioned and the money generated will go back into the project and back to the school to help the children's education.

The goal is to create a body of work that represents the way children are looking and seeing the world in todays society. This will be further documented every year at the same time hopefully with the same children over a 5 year period.