A New World, Digital Photograph, Rosie Hardy, 2010
Rosie Hardy is a 17-year-old photographer from Manchester, England. Active members of the photo website Flickr are well aware of Hardy and her imaginative use of natural light. Hardy became very well known through her 365 Days series for which she took a self portrait every day for a year. Her work originally comprised of heavy Photoshop use, manipulating stock photography along with her own images with her own self portraits to create a fantasy space. However, her most recent work is what interests me most. Hardy's work hovers between fashion and narrative photography, combining wardrobe, modeling, and makeup with (sometimes) extensive props and locations to create whimsical narratives. Appropriate, as she sites Tim Walker for her creative inspiration. For instance, the first image was taken in a room of an abandoned home which Hardy covered with flour and collected props from.
Hardy's work evokes a subtle emotion from the viewer. Her images are easily relatable and are specific, yet open-ended enough to allow the viewer to use their imagination. I'm inspired by Rosie Hardy's work and find her use of props clever and inventive. She not only has a vivid imagination, but photographs her concepts beautifully and effectively; her understanding of how light functions within an image is just one of the few factors that complete her technically solid imagery.
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