Guest Speaker: Photographer Pal Hansen

              One of the guest speakers during the first term was the NTU graduated photographer Pal Hansen. He is now a professional photographer who works mostly for magazines like The New Review. He presented some of his series of photographs on the topics Rasta people, Village people, Jewish family, Teen parents, Oslo to Utøya journey, etc (Not sure if I’m mentioning them with the official names of the projects, but the way he stated them during presentation).

               Anyway, the greatest part of the lecture included his recent work for magazines which was quite impressive. He revealed part of his muse comes from the idea to present  ordinary objects in an off-beat way punctuating the model’s personality. Besides, I was impressed by the way he is collaborating clothes, background patterns and art object in his photographs. 
               Due to my active assistance in some student photography projects, I noticed that these artist are usually building their desire impact by adding drama with black and white photography. Unlike the Bulgarian photographs’ I’ve been working with, Pal Hansen’s attitude about bright color possession in photography is bold and considered as an accent. Here I’m posting a small comparison of two photographs on the same topics (Portraits involving objects of interest). One is made by Pal Hansen and the model is Sir Peter Blake and the other is made by Kristina Kantcheva (Bulgarian photographer and a good friend of mine) while I’m modeling. 

References:

Hansen, P., 2012. n.d. [digital image]. Paul Hansen. Available at: http://www.palhansen.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=5&Itemid=26&limit=15&limitstart=75 [Accessed 07.01.2014]