2022_CLondon52w3: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Astrid Kirchherr
From the C.London website: “Maybe a selfish choice for the first artist spotlight, but I’ve always had admiration for Astrid Kirchherr. She’s best known for photographing The Beatles in their Hamburg days, which I think is fitting for a week about passion and goals. I moved to Hamburg on a whim in 2009, never having visited the city, but I already felt like I knew it - at least a piece of it - from Astrid’s work. Her love and passion reads so clearly through her photographs, and always made me as a viewer feel that love. That’s something I’ve always aspired to do with my work - make my viewers feel what I feel when I took the photo.
For this week, I want you to take some time to look through Astrid’s work, and pull anything from it that inspires you.”
The inspirational concept for me this week was to photograph people I have a close relationship with. Original intent was to photograph some friends who are like family outside their home, using the 1960 Fairground shots as inspirational images. Temperatures in the teens with wind chill in single digits nixed the outdoor and natural light portion of the intent. I therefore resorted to indoors and artificial light, using the 1964 set shot from A Hard Day’s Night as the inspirational image.
Sony A7C @ f1.8 1/125 35mm ISO 3200
Samyang AF 35mm F1.8
Photographed 1/20/22
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