Nicholas Prior is a photographer and artist based in New York City. He earned a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and now teachers there in the graduate program of Photography and Related Media. His work has been in many public and private collections and exhibitions including Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City and Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco. He has also won awards for his photography, including advertising photography. He has clients including Time Inc., Microsoft, Samsung and HSBC.
I have chosen to take inspiration from Nicholas Prior as his photographs are timeless and allow people to imagine their childhood selves doing similar things within woodland areas they may have visited as a child. His work captures the messiness of childhood through the plastic sheet with mud over it as it suggests that children will never be put into one tidy place but they are constantly changing and often producing mess whilst changing.
The natural sunlight from the back of the photographs creates a silhouette effect. This set of photos are effective as you cannot fully see the face of the children therefore it could be anyone within anytime allowing the viewer to imagine their childhood self as the person within the photograph. The use of the blur created by some sort of plastic sheet also adds to this, as the viewer cannot see the surrounding fully but gets a general idea of a woodland which may remind them of a woodland they visited when they were younger.
These photographs were edited on photoshop to create a green effect to each photo, similar to Prior's photographs. I used a pyrex sheet which I covered in mud to show the messiness of childhood. Due to weather conditions, my photographs were not as I had planned. I wanted my photos to have more of a silhouette effect however they were unable to do this as there wasn't enough sunlight, if I were to do this shoot again I would do it in the spring/summer time during the sunrise to create a perfect silhouette.
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