Very recently I shot the latest set of images in 'The Descendants' series
It was a first for me as it included Helen Pankhurst, the direct descendant of Emeline Pankhurst, the founder of the Suffragettes movement.
Helen is the first woman in the series.
This is not ideal at all.
I want to feature MANY more women but they seem to be very difficult to find
If anyone has any suggestions I would be most grateful.
When a descendant walks into the room I always hold my breath, as you never know just how much of a resemblance there will be.
When I saw Helen, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.
She looked very, very similar indeed.
As you can see.
I shot the image in a daylight studio without flash
1/15th sec at F4,120mm macro on my Phase One P45+
I try to use similar photographic techniques as in the original
It is real fun reflecting and blocking light with polyboards
Additive and subtractive fill
Opening and closing blinds so the light hits just the right parts of Helen and the set
Here is a short video of the shoot
Hope you find it interesting
I'm cramming my life in a bag right now, heading to Austria for a shoot which I will tell you about in a little while.....
Watch this space
21 comments:
I'm loving this project. You're so right; she's almost a double!
Really source of inspiration
Amazing resemblance. Showed my wife the two pictures without giving her the background of the series.
She said that the left hand picture was better. When I told her that they weren't the same...she couldn't believe it. Then I pointed out the differences. She too was amazed!!
Great going Drew...at least your efforts have great visual results. Love the attention detail.
Keep 'em coming!
Charles
Wonderful. At first (being lazy and just scrolling down to the pictures as I am wont to do) I thought it would be a story about restoring old pictures or something like that.
/Michael
Nice one Drew-another excellent one for your series.
I was at Felix Dennis's garden of heroes last week where he has one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel with the chains from the Great Eastern. I thought of your brilliant photo of that-much better than his sculpture :-)
Wow that's pretty incredible, its almost like that plot device from horror movies where someone is the spitting image of their ancestors portrait.
Cheers Guys!
And thank you John
Lets do a beer and a curry soon?
Drew
Sounds good to me :-)
What a crazy freaky resemblance!!
What an inspiring and wonderful project, thanks so much for sharing it with us.
I've got to say, Drew, I'm loving this project - so simple in concept, but so well executed because of it.
Helen sounds like a lovely lady and, rightly so, very proud of her heritage. She must have been delighted with the final result.
Hope you're keeping well :)
This is such a cool project.
Hey, speaking of cool projects, it looks like Terry Richardson got some inspiration from one of yours:
http://models.com/feed/?p=2716
Thanks Giles! Helen liked it
JKorn, I just clicked on the link you sent through...
Sigh.....
Just where do I go wrong?
Cheers
Drew
Simply astounding. Great patience, great human rapport. This series should become an exhibit. Too bad I am in Canada...
Excellent idea and execution.
Your photo is sharper but the original photographer didn't use a PhaseOne I guess :)
Fantastic!!!!! I have to say in terms of photographic projects this is brilliant-it appeals to almost everybody. Whose interest would NOT be peaked by the concept!!??
Cheers,
Matt in Dubai
Thank you Matt
I appreciate your comments
I'm trying to get a TV company interested in the project
It is proving quite difficult to convince them.....
Cheers
Drew
I hope to see many many more of these. As a consummate genealogist I am fascinated with what we receive from our ancestors. Your project is AWESOME!!!!
The best one of these so far, I think!
Thought I would check out some of your work, Drew. I am so very impressed! What an incredible, vivid imagination you have. I love the Descendants series. Would look great in the Tate Modern, dontcha think?
Hi Rachel,
Thank you for the compliments.I would love the series to be a major show.
I have attempted to put one on in the National Portrait Gallery in the UK but they have told me they are not interested
I find it baffling
Drew
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