Editorial Research- Richard Whitehead

One of the first photographers I looked at for editorial research was Richard Whitehead. I quite like some of his portraits were he has the subject smiling at the camera as it looks natural and effortless, like he has made the subject comfortable and at ease with being photographed. They appear very relaxed and happy to be there. He uses both a white and black background within his images. In both the photos I have chosen, both subjects have a a prop with them that, to me, represents something about that person. The pipe in the first image is quite obvious in one sense as he could easily be a smoker and enjoys smoking a pipe or it could literally be a prop and nothing more. The second photo however the pencil, at first to me, may represent the fact that he may be an artist and therefore always has a pencil on him. It could mean he just had it on him like that and kept it for the photograph, it could have easily been a pencil. I like these photos because at first glance they seem simple and pretty straight forward and they are however they can also get you thinking a little bit more about them like I have briefly discussed.

Images all found on his website; Richard Whitehead website link
http://www.richwhitehead.com/p811412622

Editorial, Hot and Cool Magazine

For Editorial I first researched the magazine Hot and Cool which is an up and coming magazine that had started off by students who left Uni and began the magazine, each person bringing something different to the table as one had studied fashion, another photography and so on. They published the magazine and distributed it in a local book-shop and someone spotted it and asked to sponsor them which gave them more notice and other people then began asking to advertise in their magazine and therefore their magazine became more recognisable and notable. The magazine is quite different to most in their style and approach. They include various artists, from ceramics to older music and artists that maybe aren't as well known. Their style is unique.
The link to the magazine
http://hotandcool.biz/

2nd Year at Uni. New Brief, Editorial.

Went in to Uni yesterday to receive my timetable and find out my briefs etc. My first brief is Editorial, should be interesting. I will be researching the given Magazines to start with then branching out into more relatable work to what I choose to focus on as the theme is 'Extraordinary'. I'm not sure yet at all what I would like to do for this so hopefully the research will give me some ideas and I can work from there.