Russ Flatt

 Russ flatt 

Russ Flatt

Ngati Kahungunu, New Zealand

Russ Flatt is a photographic artist that has recently completed a Post-graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland, New Zealand, 2013.

Flatt was born in Changi, Singapore in1971. His family moved first  to Wigram and then to Hobsonville Airbase before settling in Glenfield on Auckland’s North Shore in the mid 70’s.

Flatt has lived in Sydney, London and NewYork working as a commercial photographer, specifically in fashion and portraiture.

He returned to New Zealand at the end of 1996 for family reasons and works as a freelance photographer.

these two photos from  Perceiving Identity  show i really like his idea of recreating his past how he has done this photos makes you feel like you could be standing right there 

                                             

this looks like such a old style of school photo 

this one is from a campaign for glassons i must say this is one of my favourites of his that i have seen i  think this is because of the way the subject is interacting with the boxes but not so much as to make them the  subject of the photo 

 

after visit thoughts 

after the visit from russ flatt i understand this work a lot better and how he did this series i think the idea of recreating most rembrail scenes from your childhood is a great idea i just wouldn't like all the work that goes into it









my photo response idea for russ flatt is to recreate an old photo of me practising my violin under a tree im going to add the original photo when i can find it.



this is the photo that i'm trying to recreate

in the original photo that i'm trying recreate  i'm sitting under a tree in my grandpops yard i didn't knows this till yesterday but my mum says it was taken not long after my nana died .in the photo im wearing a tee and some sweat pant things  and im barefoot my thinking with this photo was to add some innocents  in to the photo so i added some angel wings white gloves and little halo headband thing  i also had a wig on to hide my messed up hair.

i think i nearly got this photo right i wish i had the photo with me when i was doing this shoot

 

for the next part of this response i thought i do me as i am now  the gothic rock sassy women that 1 am i think i got this pretty right