ED2 Photo Assignment 1 - second photographer

The second photographer I decided to research is very well known and was named the "webs top photographer" in 2006 by Wall Street Journal. Her name is Rebekka guðleifsdóttir and she is from Iceland. Like Brendon, her photos are unusual and have a large element of fantasy to them. Rather than taking a beautiful photo of herself, she would rather create something interesting, something that makes your mind tick. - http://www.rebekkagudleifs.com/self-portraits.php?photo=self0100.jpg

Her photos are extremely weird and they make you feel uncomfortable, but thats what draws people to look at them. Most of her pictures are not very colourful and desaturated.

This photo is really fascinating because it looks like the tree/plant is growing out of her mouth.

This photograph reminded me of the one that Brendon had done with the balloons covering his face and I thought that was quite interesting that both photographers had taken a similar photograph.

 

 

 

 

I really like this photo, unlike Brendon she changes her facial expression to create tension within an image, this one in particular.

 

In a lot of her photos she uses her hair as a main focus of an image, here is an example of her hair being used to create effect

 

Rebekka now also creates and sells sweaters on her website and she also draws. Her blog can be found at http://rebekkagudleifs.com/blog/