Colour Harmony through complementary colours.
With this nighttime image from the back streets of Roppongi, Japan, when I saw this girl sitting on the metal street bench, I saw the green of the fence and the pink of her bag. I looked for an angle that would lead you along the bench towards her, and then follow her gaze, which leads to the red light. I don’t know if this girl was a working girl but the way that perspective works it adds a little question to the image.
To get this image of the ginger haired lady I had to run after her in Trafalgar Square. Once she realised I wasn’t trying to sell her anything, or rob her, she stopped and spent a few minutes with me to get this image. The idea for this came from 2 places. One is a Lee Friedlander image of his shadow on the back of a woman in front of him vii which for me is as opportunist as it is great and the other is an idea I had for a project of ginger haired ladies. I would have preferred if the sky at the time was cloud less but the effect is still achieved.
This image of the mother combing her daughter’s hair before was taken in a Hangzhou morning market in China. The mother and daughter seem to be caught between to blocks of colour. The red of the chicken pieces in the foreground and the green of the poster in the background.
Finding yellow and violet combinations has proved very difficult. It was then a surprise to see this combination of a yellow painted wall and violet kiln bricks outside a foundry in east London. The bluey grey background to the container of bricks allows the subtle colour of the bricks to stand forward and not be lost and the weathered yellow wall balances the bricks with it’s faded quality.
