1. Photographer comparison
By Jonah Adshead

2. Tyrone Lebon
Tyrone Lebon is a photographer and filmmaker based in London, UK. He started taking photos and
making films in his teens; at 18 years old he shot his first film, which was screened on MTV, and at 19 had his
first work published in i-D magazine, London. Since completing his MA in Social Anthropology in 2005, he
has worked on various film and photography projects. They have been shown by a variety of international
broadcasters, galleries, and publications. He has also created imagery and film for a selection of relevant
clients including Adidas, Nike, Stussy, Dr. Martens and I-D Magazine.

3. This is a fashion portrait photograph that has
been posed for. The image has a central focus of the
subjects upside down head, with the “Stussy” logo
drawn on his it in very striking bright pink that
contrasts the other duller colours. The choice to
have the image upside down and taken from a high
vantage point is interesting and gives it a slightly
surreal effect.
Further bringing the focus to the head of the
subject and the pink logo is the fact that it is the
only part of the image in perfect focus, the rest of it
fades out and is blurry. This effect is achieved by
setting a higher aperture to lessen the depth of
field.

4. This image has been set up and the subject is posing
for the image. It isn’t taken in a studio but instead in
what appears to be a bedroom, this gives an extra
interest to the image and allows more things to
feature in it around the main subject such as the
shelves and ornaments on the right.
The model is wearing a school uniform but it
has been heavily customised giving it a strange and
striking appearance.
The model is the main focus of the image being
positioned in the centre and staring straight at the
camera with quite an expressive defiant look,
reflecting the heavily customised uniform. Further
making the model stand out, the background is
blurred and only she is in perfect focus.

7. Irving Penn
Irving Penn (1917-2009) was an American fashion and portrait photographer born in New Jersey. He
worked for many magazines including vogue, his first cover being in 1943, as well as photographing many
famous people such as Audrey Hepburn, Bridget Bardot and Al Pacino. His work still influences the industry
today.