Exploring Identity
Andy Warhol
akatre
Akatre was founded by French photographers/graphic designers Valentin Abad, Julien Dhivert and Sebastien Riveron in 2002. They met whilst they were students, then, after they all graduated, they went their separate ways to gain their own experience, working as interns and assistants at well-known cultural ateliers. After a year, they all realised that they didn’t want to work for somebody else or to have to go with someone else’s way of thinking, so they all got back together to form Akatre.
Their work is unique, exploring powerful color combinations and bizarre concepts. They mix fashion with design to create weird and wonderful pictures using mainly paper, paint and people.
Their work is unique, exploring powerful color combinations and bizarre concepts. They mix fashion with design to create weird and wonderful pictures using mainly paper, paint and people.
photoshoot in response to Akatre
Experimenting with backgrounds
akatre experiments developing my ideas
I edited photos of objects over my backgrounds, I edited them to be colourful and fun like Akatre and relate to childhood
I overlapped the photograph of a toy baby I took. I chose sweets as they relate to childhood.
I took photos of pineapples and overlapped them with the paint. I think the repetition of the object looks exciting and fun
Stefan stegmeister
Stefan Sagmeister was born in New York in 1962. He works as a graphic designer. His most famous work is him writing on peoples hands and bodies with words significant to their lives.
My experiments with text in response to Stefan sagmeister
final identity piece
John Rankin Waddell, known in his career as Rankin, is a very successful portrait photographer. The purpose of his photography is to advertise, but sometimes he does it for art and fashion. He takes the photographs in his London-based studio. The photo below is one of his most famous photos, of the Queen. It is unusual as you do not usually see the Queen smiling in her photographs. It has also been heavily digitally manipulated as her skin looks tanned.
david hockney
portraits
david hockey style
Resolving my ideas- final piece
I used my photos from the Akatre photo shoot and overlapped them over puzzles. I chose puzzle pieces as they also relate to childhood.