I have been following the photography of Mark Box for many years. I discovered his work in a show for the Anglia Ruskin University.
His work ranges from documentary photo's on bands, films, and models, to event photography. What I find particulary inspirational about his work is the photography shoots he sets up and shoots because he combines an aspect of glamour photography with surreal surroundings and story lines.
The above show a range of photo's of Mark Box's collections.
- The images of the and the alcohol bottles are taken from events he has attend. What is interessting about the two compositions is the slow shutter speed used and the slightly higher than usual exposure level. The high exposure helps highlight the characters within the images and the slow shutter speed creates motion within the picture to suggest and fun busy atmosphere within the events.
- The images of the the individuals in the portrait photography present a set of surreal characters with a very dark and mysterious set up. Most of the images have been edited. The image of the bald man within the spider on his head, has been edited because the image has a patched grayscale filter placed on it with the brightness and contrast been edited in order for the man to stand out from the background.
Mark Box also experiments with cd covering graphics and photography- here are some examples of his work:
What's interesting about these two cd covers is the extreme contrast in style compared to Box's other photography. Both covers seem more clean cut and simple.
My two most inspirational images from Mark Box's Collections:
The first image is of a speaker and a lighting effect wrapped around it. The slow shutter speed and the light exposure of the light effect helps not only create a sense of motion within the image of the music and the waves of the sound pumping around the room but it also helps highlight the speaker as the main source of the effect.
The second image is of a red chandelier swinging in a dull darkened room. Again the same analysis applies to this image as the slow shutter speed helps create the effect that the chandelier is swinging and the blur of the light and the redness of the chandelier gives the impression of a party atmosphere because of the blur.
Mark Box's Websites:
http://markboxphotography.carbonmade.com/
http://www.livinginaboxworld.com/
