DREW PHOTO Max

Fall Series 1: Nathan Lyons My artist is Nathan Lyons. Through the following odd subjects, he created an eerie vibe. He sometimes tried to create socially-engaging images. His visual recipe is: odd subjects, dark and urban backgrounds, shadows, and black and white. His photos never featured or showed any "real" person, but could have featured "not real" or "fake" people, making some of his photos have an isolated and eerie feel to them.

Portraits: These portrait photos are inspired by Richard Avedon's work, as he is a portrait photographer. I followed his way of taking photos through saying prompts to the model that would invoke some emotion in their facial expression. From watching Avedon's documentary, I learned that he only actually took the photos of his subjects after the models put down their "mask" and would start to show their emotions to Avedon and his camera. I tried to do this same thing, but I didn't have enough time to accommodate for not taking the first few "masked" photos. I took pictures of Daro and Stewart.