Vee Speers' Thirteen photo shoot was based on her daughter's childhood and transition into adolescence. The photos depict a young girl exploring her growing independence through nature imagery. Speers' Immortal shoot features youths in a forest setting that seems enclosed. The photos emphasize natural beauty but seem artificial and lack emotion. Speers' The Birthday Party features excited children with dramatic facial expressions, but the repetitive shots make it boring. Her Parisians photos symbolize memories of the circus through unique dramatic setups, though some are too abstract. Her Bordello photos depict beautiful women in a dream-like state that seems to merge subject and photographer. Speers believes Paris inspires self-expression.

1. Vee Speers

2. Thirteen

3. Thirteen
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Vee Speers Thirteen photography shoot was in fact based on her daughters
childhood and the growing pains and the wanting of her own independence.
After Vee Speers had pictures the children in The Birthday Party, in Thirteen
she has used her own daughter and using a plain grey wall to show
childhood growing into the adult world with all the independence and a new
found freedom. The aesthetics of the Thirteen pictures are all of the young
girl and showing of her beauty in many ways involving using object and
nature to give a effect on the picture. In most of the pictures in Thirteen the
girl seems as if she is looking and is in deep thought about what is coming
ahead as the pictures are based in the new independence she is gaining. A
lot of nature is involved in the pictures of Thirteen by leaves, swans and
butterflies.

4. Immortal

5. Immortal.
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Vee Speers Immortal photo shoot is based upon have beautiful youths with
a forest type theme background. These youths are real but some how they
seems trapped and enclosed from the outside world. The pictured are a
mixture of natural beauty and airbrushed Photoshop perfection. Immortal
photo shoot is more about nature and the natural beauty held within the
person themselves and the background. Comparing the Immortal against
the Thirteen photo shoot, Thirteen is more about the girl in the picture where
as Immortal is about the nature infused background and plain models.
Personally I don’t really like the Immortal photos, I prefer the Thirteen
pictures more as they have more emotions and feelings connected to them
than the Immortal pictures. Immoral pictures seem almost dead and not
have a a lot consisting of them and most of them are all the same.

6. The Birthday Party

7. The Birthday Party
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In The Birthday Party photo shoot Vee Speers has let her imagination gone
wild. With the faces of the children looking straight at the camera it creates
that dramatic effect. In this project Vee Speers used the fantasy the same
as she did in another project called Bordello but in The Birthday Party she
has pared down the aesthetics that amplifies the visual intensity thought its
simplicity. Each picture in The Birthday Party every child is hyped up and
looks like they are looking forward to hours on entertainment. Almost every
child’s face has the same facial expression this makes all the pictures seem
the same and in my opinion makes it quite boring.

8. My interpretation.
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Here I attempted at taking a picture like Vee
Speers did. I don’t think it was very good
although the main picture and how the my
sister is positioned is the same as the Vee
Speers one the effect and the back ground
didn’t work. To improve next time I shall
take more than one so I can choose my
favourite and the best one and maybe edit it
to make it the best it can be.

9. Parisians

10. Parisians
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In Vee Speers photo shoot the Parisians the key message which is coming
across is the photographers keen eye for detail and symbolism as her
subjects perform dramatically for the viewer, or pose against a backdrop.
Speers dramatic set-ups are memories and things which remind Vee of her
experience she had being with the circus. These pictures are vey unique
and I don’t completely understand them all but then I suppose you don’t
understand anything at the circus either. Some of the pictures are very
clever and how they have been taken was just right to get the effected
needed to get the picture right. In my opinion these pictures are all of what
to unique for my liking and I don’t really like them. They are also all been
edited to be made black and white which gives that dark and unhappy feel
as colour seems to add life and emotion into a picture.

11. BORDELLO

12. Bordello
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‘The twighlight of Vee Speers photos of beautiful women causes the viewer
to merge with the surroundings of the image and enter a kind of dream-like
vision of an often sordid reality. Shapes lose definition and imagination
overweighs perception. Real life is left behind… the boundaries between
subject and photographer become more and more indistinct’
These pictures almost seem like the people in the picture have recently had
a rough time or been heart broken I get this feeling from the mood in the
picture and the facial expressions being presented. The women almost don’t
seem to care and are just presenting them selves across as how they feel
comfortable.

13. Vee Speers took all o f her pictures
in Paris she believes..
Paris is one of those cities
where people can express
themselves as they like, and
no-one bats an eye-lid. It’s
easy to be inspired here.’
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