Monday, November 24, 2008

Vee Speers The Birthday Party





Paris based Australian born photographer Vee Speers series the Birthday party was one of the personal standouts for me at the recent Paris Photo. Birthday Party is a fantastical series executed with great simplicity and a wonderful imagination. Imagine a birthday party with a twist, amongst the princesses and the boxers, the soldiers and the retro bathing beauties are the characters from the darker side of some childhood fantasies. A rodent exterminator or a scary looking collector of dolls, a circus perfomer with a one size too small sailors suit and a girl dressed in white holding a dead rabbit. Some images are unsettling and some images I covet to hang on my walls. Vee Speers was inspired when she threw a birthday party for her daughter Sienna and one of the tiny guests arrived in a three piece suit. Sienna is one of Vee's muses in this series beautifully transforming herself from a singer to a beautiful girl dressed in a harlequin skirt and to the party girl blowing a huge bubble. These photos are timeless. Vee Speers has achieved this with her wonderful cast of character, the simple use of an old wall as a background, styling that is hard to place in any particular era and hand tinting to original Polaroid images.

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