Photographer 5

Anne Geddes
Anne's photography focus's on babies and their mothers during pregnancy but she captures them in interesting ways as they are dressed up as. Her imagery captures the 'beauty, vulnerability and purity' of children as she deeply believes that each and every child should be 'protected, nurtured and loved'. She has turned her photographs into greetings cards and even turned them into books showing all her photographs of the babies she has captured over the years. She shows the simple innocence of children in a way in which parents cherish.

This photograph is showing 3 babies in plant pots dressed as sunflowers. I feel this is really good way of showing the friendship/family bond of these three babies. They are all showing natural expressions as they at a young age and so they cannot pose. 

This photograph is showing 3 sleeping babies all in pea pod cases. There bodies are further covered in pea costumes to create the image that the babies head is meant to be the last  pea which is missing. I like the way that there are other peas around the outside of the 3 pods. The background of the image is also made up of smaller green circles. It could be a textured background but it gives the perception that they are much smaller peas. 

I think that this photograph showing two sleeping babies captures the babies innocence. The babies are shown as two sleeping angels which shows their innocence as angels are pictured as pure loving creatures so by dressing the babies up as angels it is making them appear in this way as well. The colour of the feathers in the background contrast with the white of the angel wings. 

The child in this photograph is slightly older than the other babies in the other 3 photographs, but this just shows that she can work with a variety of ages. The theme of this portrait is 'under the sea', this creates the illusion that the babies are sea creatures and the background and props have been selected to help create this image. I like this photograph as it is creative and it shows that the child is happy to be posing as a fish.

Her work has inspired me as i would like to try and be more creative when taking portraits of people etc because it may be easy to get older models to dress up and pose for the camera. I feel the added creative side will make portraits which would've been quite plain and boring more interesting and appealing to those looking at my photographs. 

In summary I like Anne Geddes' work as i feel that it is very creative and unique compared to a lot of baby/portrait photographers. She has such a good imagination and i like the way she uses it to create such different photographs. If i was to focus on portraits in my work i would like to think of abstract ideas also.