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Radio Time Magazine 2023 Rebecca Naen

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Arnold Newman

After some of the initial research into portraits at the beginning of the semester by Pernille Sandberg I came across Arnold Newman and particular his envrionmental portraits of pianists and artists who's profession was sitting with these beautiful instruments.

I was taken back by how he composed the portrait, making the piano as much of a focal point but also obselete with little to no detail. The contrast and impact it has is quite striking. The vermeer lighting on Stravinsky's face adds to the contrast in the rest of the image that is largely flat areas of black and grey space.

One type of portrait photography that I have always loved is black and white - as the classic view of it goes 'it transcends time' - though there are elements of style that are embued with photographs their transcendance of time is what liberates them. Which is something i really like in the environmental or close up portraits like i looked at of Rebecca Naen, Leanne Surfleet, Pernille Sandberg and Mia Sakai.

Igor Stravinsky, New York, NY, 1 December 1946

Noted for his ‘environmental portraits’, Newman photographed his subjects in settings which reflected their profession and captured them in situ – from Jackson Pollock in his studio, to Arthur Miller pictured backstage at the theatre. One of the artist’s most known photographs pictures the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky sitting at a grand piano. In this portrait, the object of the sitter’s profession takes centre stage, nearly filling the image, while Stravinsky himself takes a seat in the corner.

Newman’s choice of a white background, along with his use of black and white film and angle, all work together to subtly nod towards the sitter’s character and profession. He stages the image in a way which causes the lid of the piano loses its depth, taking the form of an abstract shape which closely resembles a music note. The music note dramatically looms over the composer, embodying Stravinsky’s life’s work.

Newman said of his sitters, “it is what they are, not who they are, that fascinates me”. In this portrait, the sitter and his profession merge. Through his ‘environmental portrait’, Newman creates an image which visualises the scale of Stravinsky’s talent and fame

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Emily Bador by Rebecca Naen

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Leomie Anderson photographed by REBECCA NAEN for Refinery 29

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Aweng Chuol by Rebecca Naen for Blanc Magazine Spring 2018

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Wayne Booth photographed by Rebecca Naen for The Modist

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You might recognise the name Sheku Kanneh-Mason, as he was plucked by Harry and Meghan to play cello at their wedding last year; Other faces might not be so on your radar.  

But the Telegraph has trawled through the contenders who are making waves in the world of jazz, rock and rap, to bring a comprehensive list of homegrown talent, that you can use to impress any live music lovers, at a dinner party. 

From singer-songwriter Moss Kena (wearing pink Alexander McQueen suit) who has toured with Rita Ora; To Samm Henshaw (black and white Saint Laurent), a Peckham resident- Henshaw who has toured with James Bay and Chance the Rapper, this is the talent we need to know. 

Aeris Roves, 22 moved from Birmingham to London aged ten, and within twelve jam- packed years, has played the Albert Hall, and 17 year old Dino is already being mentored by Stormzy and “In five to 10 years, I hope to see big awards, and to play festivals like Glastonbury and Coachella. I'd also love to collaborate with Ed Sheeran and Drake.”

Britain certainly has got talent. Read the full article here 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/mens-style/11-young-musicians-listen-now-including-favourite-royals/

Credits

The Sunday Telegraph, 24th September 2019

Photographer: Rebecca Naen

Stylist: Ellie Witt

Grooming: Beth Alderson

Talent: 

Moses Boyd

JNR Williams

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Moss Kena

Samm Henshaw

B Young

Dermot Kennedy

Aeris Roves

Casey Lowry 

The Amazons

Dino 

By Sara Darling

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Aweng Chuol by Rebecca Naen for ALIFEROUS (HAVING WINGS) Blanc Magazine

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Cassey Chanel & Monica Tomas by Rebecca Naen for Vanidad Magazine

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05_Rebecca Naen

Rebecca Naen is a sports, fashion + lifestyle photographer based in London. In terms of portraiture I don't think I can pick a favourite from among her works, she has so many styles that she's employed in her photographs and I admire different things about all of them.

After looking through her works, there were a couple of stand-outs.

The first was an editorial series she did in 2021 called To the hills. The model, Claire, is very spunky - her outfits against the natural scenery is an interesting juxtaposition. By the looks of some of the shots (as well as some of her other work) she does some work in 35mm or medium format(??) film (colour + b/w). I think as part of the larger project this semester I quite like the approach of incorperating some analogue in with digital.

As a concept for photographing others throughout the semester (as well as myself) I like the idea of going further afield for a change of scenery. I would think it could also be a way of putting together the landscape/documentative style that I enjoy shooting into the genre of portraiture.

Technically, the overcast natural light is not overexposed so I am going to assume that an ND filter might have been used on the digital shots to balance the sky out??

The second was a short series of black and white close-up headshots - one of which (left) of the Rebecca herself.

These do look like studio photographs with soft butterfly lighting coming from the top down but the model's face is turned slightly to accomodate their features in interaction with the light. All three have lighting on the t-zone, nose, cheeks and chin with shadows falling around the jawline, lower lip, under the nose and eye. The background is also very well lit to roughly the same amount as the facial highlights. It looks like little is done to relieve the shadows under the chin in any of the images so no reflector (?).

What I like about them is the tightened frame, the focal point is the eyes in all three (neither the mouth or nose is really in focus at all) and all other facial features melt away. It creates a really engaging portrait.

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Emily Bador by Rebecca Naen

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Leomie Anderson by REBECCA NAEN for Refinery29