Nick Knight - Charlotte Anstey

This morning Charlotte is having photographs of her collection taken. The theme of the photoshoot is "blood". Very mysterious lighting, lots of red props and an intimidating model. I have found one photograph in particular taken by Nick Knight and I would like to experiment with Lucy (the model) and see if I can create a similar shot.

The image below is of a girl leaning her head forward over a wooden stall, it's obvious to see she is bleeding. Her hair is covering her face and her hands are positioned near her eyes which suggests she is crying. Her long hair is draped over the stall drawing you to the reflection in the blood. The picture is very dark and attracts a lot of curiousity because of the attention to detail and the strong colours used creating a very powerful image.

Another photograph that I love is from a series called "The Apple of My Eye" taken by Eleanor Hardwick. She manages to produce such amazingly spontaneous and abstract images by taking her creativity to a new level. Her ability to create what she pictures in her mind is very well produced and this image in particular is distubingly beautiful. The model is innocently sitting pressing the red apple to her face. Her eyes are staring so far into space she is almost hypnotising me with her dramatic expression. Her hair, skin and clothes are very pale opposed to the deeply saturated red of the apple and her lips. The movement with her hand almost suggests that the apple has smeared the red upon her face.

Herring and Herring - Lucia Graham

My client feels inspired by Herring and Herring's tribal collection and would like her collection to portray a buzzy, vibrant feel. Herring and Herring is a collaboration between Dimitri Scheblanov and Jasper Carlsen enagaging in fashion photography and art direction, their clients include Debeers, Gucci, Philip Crangi, Born the Best, Alvin Valley and many others. The fashion student who I have been closely working with, Lucia Graham is designing a tribal collection targeted at men. This morning I have briefly spoken with her as we have scheduled a shoot this coming Friday and here are some ideas she has for how she'd like her pieces to be shown.

Magazine Layout Designs

Once the photographs have been taken of the students final fashion collection, it is very important to design a page layout for the photographs to be printed on to. The idea of including the images onto a page spread is for many reasons; the most obvious being, the final collection can be seen by others and to help promote the students work. It is also a nice idea to influence the images with text; the text maybe an interview with the student about the making of their piece or it could be captions in which they felt inspired by in order to make their garments.

I think it’s important for a reader to understand what is going on, on the page in front of them. Some page layouts do not include any text and keep the page focused on the photographs but some layouts do include text to inform what is going on the page. Personally when I flick through journals or magazines I do prefer to see big prints with minimal text because I find I like to make my own judgement about what I see in front of me and not what somebody else wrote. It allows me to think more freely about the subject that I am viewing however I also think having text included in the layout design is informative for the reader and helps promote the designer with their name, brand and contact details.

This layout is an example of a fashion magazine page design. I like this page layout because the colours and tone of the image

Georg Wendt

Ronald Stoops

Robert August

Nick Knight

Nick Knight is among the world’s most influential photographers as well as being Director & founder of SHOWstudio.com the fashion & art internet broadcasting channel. He has won numerous awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, W magazine, i-D, and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects for clients including Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. On the 24th October 2006 Nick Knight was awarded the prestigious Moet Chandon Fashion Tribute for 2006, which he celebrated by throwing a masked ball at Horace Walpoles Gothic revival treasure, Strawberry Hill.


As a fashion photographer, Nick Knight has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty. His first book of photographs, skinheads, was published in 1982. He has since produced Nicknight, a 12 year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures. Knight’s work has been exhibited at such institutions as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, the Photographers Gallery and Hayward Gallery and recently The Tate Modern. He has produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London. He lives with his wife and three children in London.