Theatre Royal Art Deco Inspired Shoot

Theatre Royal Art Deco Inspired Shoot

As well as being a photographer, I'm also engaged. In my spare time I love to look through the growing array of Wedding Inspiration blogs. These inspirations can be from world wide sources such as Style Me Pretty in the US, through to more local inspirations, such as Brides Up North. 

Currently there appears to be a growing trend developing from across the water in having more 'stylised' weddings, and themes are becoming the forefront of the trend setting brides. 

Therefore, I grasped this opportunity with both hands- what could be more inspirational than creating a thematic Bridal shoot with local businesses? 

With all things Deco being the height of popularity currently, I teamed up with Anh Mao from Mao Couture (http://www.maocouturebridal.co.uk), new wedding venue The Theatre Royal, and Nic and Marie from ND Make Up.

 Together we created an 'Old Hollywood' Deco style body of work.

 Pearman Photography is now privileged to be one of the Theatre Royal's recommended wedding photographers.

 Thanks is due to Annabel from Tyne Tee's New Faces (http://www.tyneteesmodels.co.uk/models/intro.htm), and Eve Kristina (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eve-Kristina) who supplied us with the fabulous models. 

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*Mint Julep- a drink frequently drank throughout The Great Gatsby, which we all would have enjoyed after the shoot!

"Wear Your Sunday Best"

"Wear Your Sunday Best"

It was a privilege being able to capture "Wear Your Sunday Best"during Fashion Week. Occurring during the week of 12th May, the event both attracted and involved a large number of businesses from around the North East, which was great to work along side them. 

I would like to extend a massive thank you to all the models who participated and did a fabulous job and also to the student support team who helped me in finding props to decorate the venue.

 The biggest thanks however must go to ND Make Up and to The House of Seduction as they together put the entire event together which was outstanding!

           

The contributions from other businesses was fantastic, and these included:

Scarlet Street: www.scarletst.com

Jalov: www.jalov.co.uk

Pne Group: www.pne.org

Oil Lamp Productions UK: www.oillampproductions.co.uk

The Wholesch-Bang: www.thewholesch-bang.co.uk

Vintage Loves Roses: www.vintagelovesroses.co.uk

Favour-it-ism: www.favour-it-ism.co.uk

Emma Bunting: www.emma-bunting.co.uk

Ruby's Tea Party: www.rubysteaparty.co.uk

Bright Star: www.facebook.com/brightstarlightsound

Gramophone DJ's: www.facebook.com/seventyeightspin.vintagegramophonedj

Lollie & Lulu: www.lollieandlulu.co.uk

Lola Rose Vintage Boutique: www.lolarosevintageboutique.com

If Pearman Photography can cover any event for you in the same style as this, please get in touch.

Phone: 07535625675

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Valentines Pin Ups

What a month it has been! 
I set about coming up with an alternative sexy shoot theme to pass onto the Pearman Photography  clients for the romantic month of February.  I personally HATE boudoir photography.  For me it evokes notions of oiled up women doing tacky poses, in bad lighting, throughout the 80's & 90’s. 

  










As I'm always aiming to be innovative, I simply had to evolve the theme.
The age of 50’s Rockabilly chic is pretty established as an aspect of fashion.  The big hair, the winged eyes, and trashy vibe entered into a mainstream in fashion with the rise and fall of the legend Miss Winehouse.   Although I love this style, I didn’t want to be too safe and obvious.

I wanted to give my February Valentines shoot’s something a bit different.  Over Christmas I watched the entire Band of Brothers box-set.  I loved the accuracy of the interpretation of the 1940’s and this began to formulate my idea further.  The Pin up was an art form that boomed in WW2.  Soldiers painted beautiful women on the sides of their planes for luck, and the art-form was an indulgence for soldiers missing their women at home.

Recently with Burlesque trends, this vibe has come back into the forefront of styling.  What I love the most about this style is that the whole thing was based around women who were not at all real.  They were illustrated.  Their proportions defy science, similar to all of our magazines on the shelves today.  Instead of using a pencil to draw out our ideal woman, we use Photoshop!

So by taking inspiration from the 1940’s illustrated women, I wanted to offer today’s Newcastle ladies the chance to come and have a photo-shoot, where they had the opportunity to style it in line with who they are.  We’d then work together to add the more fantastical appeal by playing around with technology of air-brushing and retouching.  Before I started shouting about this for Valentines day, I had to test it.  So I invited some bloggers along.   



Amy Lord from Ten Penny Dreams has a great blog, she is an aspiring writer, and uses her blog to document her route to becoming a full time writer.  She attended the Blogcademy down in London recently hosted by famous bloggers Kat Williams, Gala Darling and Shauna Haider.  After chatting with Amy I was impressed that she is very disciplined in her blogging.  At 4 times a week, she puts my monthly posts to shame.  Amy wanted to do something more along the lines of housewife chic with her shoot.  Here is a small selection of what we created together.

You can subscribe to Amy’s blog, and follow her on twitter @tenpennydreams and @AmyWritesStuff 
Next up was Sandra Tang.  I met Sandra at The House of Seduction Fashion show event I covered this month at Newcastle’s Fat Buddha.  You can see their blog about my work on this night here.  Not only does Sandra live and breathe fashion, she organizes Newcastle’s Fashion Week.  Sandra naturally brought a much more fashionista take to the brief of 1940’s pin up.  Her first “piece” to wear was a fabulous suit that a friend of her’s had kept aside especially for her at a house clearance.  These are obviously the people you need to know to get your hands on the authentic items! Sandra blogs about all things fashion every couple of days.  Here is her blog about coming to the studio.

You can subscribe to Sandra’s blog and follow her on twitter @sandiebeach. With these two already very different takes on my brief, I knew that this could evolve into something more along the lines of a long-term project.  So I have decided to keep it in the mix as something available from the studio on an ongoing basis.  In the next few weeks I’ll be welcoming a pin up cyclist to the studio, a pin up medium and even a pin up with a pet puppy!  I can’t wait. There is a long-term offer now featured to the people of Newcastle through NE1 offers (thanks to Sandra).  You can get this by going here.