Emma Summerton honed her skills in the world of fashion photography. She admires the works of Sarah Moon and Paolo Roversi.
published in Vogue Italia, she would later work for the magazine, as well as for many other prestigious titles.
The beauty of his images, however, lies in much more than just the beauty of his subjects. The variety of his photographic repertoire encompasses
Still life, narrative, and fashion. It is in the cross-observation of her artistic work and her fashion photographs that the spark of a
A creation flirting with mystery.
The photographer, originally from Australia, now lives in London where she enjoys a successful career. She shot her first editorial using Polaroid film, a technique she has continued to use. This is how Polaroid reappears in her latest series, Messages. This work with analog film may explain the artist's attraction to contrasts and textures in her photographs.
From one medium to another, the distinctive identity of her images stems in part from the vibrancy of the colors and her characteristic way of embracing light and playing with shimmering effects. In her work, bodies and subjects are recomposed. The photographer also adopts a sometimes surprising perspective, as in her Hydra series, where her point of view merges with that of the model. She explains that she seeks to get to know her models before any shoot in order to integrate their personality into her work.
This is perhaps how the vibrations of bodies manage to intersect with those of light on the surface of the image. The off-screen spaces, the superimpositions, the shimmering color palettes, and the optical effects reinforce or bring forth directly from the image these mystical themes, entering into a dialogue with the pictorialist photography of the early 20th century.
They also offer an air of magic and mystery inherent to his inspiration. The title of his latest exhibition, "14 Spells (to save your life)," does not
that confirm what one perceives. A kind of enchantment of forms seems to be at the heart of his work, when bodies escape gravity or disappear under a veil, when flowers are exposed like UFOs in the night, when vernacular legends are a source of wisdom.
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