David Goymer

IN A FRAME OF POWER (2010)

This is one of the images from my final brief of my first year at WSA. We were asked to produce an A5 hardback bound book in response to the word ‘Transition’.

I wanted to produce an artists book of portraits of typical people in their element. People pictured displaying the ‘thing’ that gives them a powerful frame of mind, inside a physical frame on a white background along with a quote from them.

Please click the image to see the whole collection along with quotes that make up the book.

This is Sam, shot for Renaissance. WIth this shot I really tried to focus on producing some deep black & white tones. Digital black & white never quite looks as good as film but i’m fairly pleased with this result.

Another shot of Lucy for Renaissance.  I took these before Christmas time but with uni work i’ve only just had time to focus on them!

A shot of Lucy for Renaissance hair

An updated team photo for Renaissance hair. It was quite hard to fit everybody in whilst making sure I didn’t go so wide that I include distracting background elements. For this shot I had to stand on a chair and use the floor as the background.

Another shot of Olivia from the same roll of film as the last one. This was shot at the Church opposite the uni campus, the light was near perfect that afternoon.

Still loving the B&W tones of 35mm. I have so many shots I still haven’t had time to take a closer look at. Still, I suppose i’ve always got something to do on a rainy day.

This is a more conceptual self portrait. The gas mask is supposed to show how suffocating trying to look good and fashion itself can be. Again, I didn’t use this for the brief as the concept isn’t as strong in this shot as some others, however these two are possibly my own personal favourites from the set anyway.

This is a tribute to Richard Avedons work from his collection “In the American West”. This isn’t one I used for my project as I felt it was more conceptual than documentary but not conceptual enough to send a clear message.