Fashion Photography

Throughout the years, photography has been a completely original way to portray everything from fashion to music, art, war, poverty and life.

A good photographer can take an image and portray their take and their emotions behind it. These photographs go on to audiences who truly connect and understand the photographers’ sometimes crazy, obscene, beautiful or sad world.

Two of these photographers, Nick Knight and David LaChapelle have strong creative control in fashion and their messages; they go beyond the need to sell and create editorial shots to place in glossy magazines – they have embodied an aesthetic of outrageously beautiful photographs in which a single picture they produce can sum up a ‘moment’. Fashion is one of those brilliantly versatile subjects that provoke photographers to play around with it.

Whether it’s the clothes, the model, the subject, the location or even beyond the typical assortment of themes, these fashion photographs are groundbreaking – not in a way that every other fashion photo’s job is to make you ‘desire’ the commodity, or makes you believe that the object in the photo is the one you need, these pictures have become more than that. Forget about fashion photographs making you buy into an item, these have the power to make you want to be completely immersed in the, in their, fashion world.

Here are some of their fantastic pictures, with reviews to follow...
Nick Knight for Yohji Yamamoto

Nick Knight photographing Naomi Campbell
Nick Knight

David LaChapelle