Guernsey Photography Festival 2012!!

After posting a few days ago about the Photomarathon, it got me thinking about what other events have been planned as part of this years Guernsey's Photography Festival.  

I looked online at guernseyphotographyfestival and saw that there are many things happening from the 24th of May until the 22nd of June.
This got me interested as I will soon be returning home from Uni for the summer and could possibly attend some of these.
I saw that there were 7 major photographers involved with the festival this year - Mark Power, Klavdij Sluban, Bruno Boudjelal, Ricardo Cases, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Kiana Hayeri and Ivor Prickett.
I took a quick look at each one of their works and was most intrigued by the work of Anastasia Taylor-Lind..

''Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an English/Swedish documentary photographer who is a member of VII photo agency.  She is based in London and works for clients such as GEO Germany, The Telegraph Magazine, The Observer Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Marie Claire, ELLE France, Newsweek, Time magazine and The New York Times.  Her work has been exhibited internationally, in spaces such as The Saatchi Gallery, The Frontline Club, and The National Portrait Gallery in London, Fovea Exhibitions in New York and Pikto Gallery in Toronto.  She has received a number of photography awards, from a diverse range of organisations including a FNAC grant for photojournalism, which was presented at the Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival in 2011, a Canon Young Photographer award in 2010 and the Royal Photographic Society Joan Wakelin Bursary in 2009.  In 2011 Anastasia was selected to participate in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclss.  She has degrees from the university of Wales Newport and the London College of Communication.''

I discovered that she is giving a talk on the 26th of May at our local Performing Arts Centre, I will be home by this time so have booked a ticket to attend her lecture.
Her work that she is presenting is titled 'Siberian Supermodels.'
This is a series of work taken in Siberia tries to depict the 'real' people behind the models seen in fashion magazines these days, investigating the values behind the sculpted idealized body.
She travelled around this remote area, visiting hotels and gyms where her talent scouts would hold castings for wannabe models.  She came across many females as well as children who want to escape from this Siberian landscape with the intention of fulfilling their lifelong dream of becoming a worldwide supermodel.

Some of the most beautiful women have come from Siberia and this is what drove her to visit there, looking into how they bring up girls to become the perfect model.
During her time out there Taylor-Lind discovered that they run schools for children from the age of 5, teaching them how to stand, walk and pose in certain ways as well as learning to diet, dress and apply make up correctly.

More can be read about this particular project on her website www.anastasiataylorlind.com.

Fashion Photography is something which has always interested me and I really look forward to hearing from Anastasia Taylor-Lind herself in a few weeks!