You can learn a lot just by looking at each of his photos and analyzing them. The backgrounds are hand painted in my opinion. The flower seems to be positioned either next to the window if he uses natural light or he uses a window between the flower and his studio lights to make those nice shadows. The straight lines of those shadows that make diagonals work really good on our eyes. A really nice feeling not having a seamless background.

Robert Mapplethorpe also uses a really nice format that fits the flowers well, it’s almost a square(1 by 1), but that almost makes a really big difference. He also puts all those elements in a way that he creates balance. Every element works really well with other elements of the whole flower art photography.

Each of her photos can keep you busy for quite some time and each of her work tells a story or is captured in that split second where you don’t know what the subject will do or won’t do. So you can’t really know what is going to happen.

Most of her photographs don’t show the models face. We know that the face tells us easily id it’s happy or sad. Now hide that face and the whole picture is unknown and you have to read the content with the body language, the pose, the environment and the objects. It is a whole new story and you need to use your imagination which by the way, in the today’s age of technology and media we don’t use that much.

All the pictures we see today are focused on the eyes and we also automatically look at the face and the look. Products and commercial work is sold with the face mostly. If we see a ad with a happy person holding a product we connect with it and think:”Having that product will make me smile/be confident/happy/beautiful too.” The whole story is already told since it’s a process of pre-selling a product to us. So it’s really good to see different photography that doesn’t tell you everything and grabs your wallet and such enjoyable photography is made by Cig Harvey.

Open your mind, heart and look at the work of Cig Harvey. More of her art photography work can be found at her website so make sure you check it out.