Annie Liebowitz

Annie Liebowitz is a photographer and she is a Project Manager too. From working with the Rolling Stones Magazine she went on the 1975 world tour, also photographed some famous photos with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. She joined Vanity Fair and was made the magazine’s first contributing photographer and works for Vogue too. I have put two videos up, to show what her work is all about, What drives her? Technical aspect? and who commissions her?

Polosh Art Exhibition- Manchester: Triangle

Kelis Acapella

Tony Book & Adrain Shaughnessy.

I went to the Lecture at the Print Works to see Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook. I was interested with the music side to them and creating music albums for the band Primal Scream and creating the designs for Fabric-London nightclub. They both get inspired by a lot of books, one of them said "when you find something good on the internet, you can't find it again but with a book , you can always find it."

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For Practitioners this year, I really enjoyed ContainerPLUS when Nicola Carter came to Stockport College for a talk. They combine and collaborated with illustration, photography, set design, performance, and 3D elements. They have a few well-known clients, Topshop, Selfridges, Sony, MTV and Q Magazine. I found the talk interesting and fun and inspiring.
+++Make Me a Supermodel, installation working with the candidates for the Channel Five TV show+++

Nicola set up ContainerPLUS with Luise Vormitty in 2002/2003, they met studying at Camberwell University. They both finished Uni in 2002, their work was very different but both shared a good sense of humor. They had a joint project and had the exhibition at the Notting Hill Arts Club and they got nominated at Creative Review’s “Creative Futures 2003” from that they got commissions, editorials, book covers, and interior design. From that countainerPLUS grow and another lady jointed.
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Their style of work is elegant, simple, soft and very thought through. I looked at ContainerPlus last summer and ardor their work and I would to work in a company like them, they seem to reinvent themselves and explore techniques and develop new ideas and I do with the work I create. They seem to have a lot of compassion and care towards their work and looks like they all have fun working too. When I am working I have got to have fun, when I am not having fun, you can see that through your work.
+++TV BAFTA awards: sets for the BAFTA aftershow party+++

Paul Rand

This is Paul Rand "starting with a lousy photograph of Mencken, he magicaly produced a comic image that became a virtual logo for the writer" this niave silouet framing Mencken.

New Brief '7x7"

I am working with Jane and we have been team up by a creative writer from MMU Crew for the Manchester Literature festival at the Corner house in October. Our story is about and called 'A Conversation With Quetzalcoatl (The god Quetzalcoatl, is the Feathered Serpent or Precious Twin). We are going to research and go deeper into looking at Mexican Culture and Aztec Gods. Quetzalcoatl is the god intelligence and self-reflection, a patron of priests. Quetzalcoatl is a primordial god of creation- He is a good God and and he created the current world and the fifth sun, by using his own blood to give new life to bones. He is the giver of breath and the god of winds.

Quetzalcoatl symbols - Quetzal feathers and light shines off him. A Quetzal is a fruit eating bird, sacred bird of the ancient Mayas and Aztecs . Today the bird is found in part of the cloud forest from southern Mexico.

Aztec tombs

Aztec Totem.

This is an idea for one of the finished images. It's all been hand made and photographed. Me and Jane are happy with the outcome. All our props have been photographed and now we are playing around with the images.

We're interested at Pierre et Gilles Using photographs and adding other elements onto the image.

We are happy with the end result, we are gointo to refine the two images more over the summer. Changing the background- maybe paint it or make the background 3D to make the image join together and photograph it again, I had so much fun working with Jane and would like to work with Jane in 3rd year on a project or something.

We're not finished yet, end result will be in September with an animation too