Almost five years ago when I just started blogging, I discovered Olivia Bee‘s photos and shared them here. Back then, she was only 14 years old but that didn’t stop her from landing a shoot for Converse. One thing led to another and when I read about the 19 year old photographer who got to shoot Cacharel’s newest campaign in the newspaper last week, I was curious to discover her latest work. Her photos are still as dreamy and full of atmosphere as 5 years ago, although this time I made a selection that feels a little bit more natural and spontaneous then the majority of her work, which is often more staged and posted but equally beautiful, although less in line with my taste.
“I strive to capture the ordinary, in an extraordinary way. Life is beautiful, perfect, and cinematic, if you look at the right moments. It’s not always an accurate summary of life in general, but it is those specific moments that make it worth living anyway.”
This quote of hers captures what I love in this selection very well and reminds me of Ryan McGinley‘s work, (who she names as one of her influences and happens to be one of my favorite photographers as well, proof here) but also of what I’m looking for when I have my camera in hand.
Seascapes is a series by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 1980, he began to photograph the sea and its horizon all over the world, with an old-fashioned large format camera and varying exposures. He describes his work as ‘time exposed’, a time capsule for a series of events in time, in this case up to 3 hours of sea in one image. If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know I’m fascinated with seascapes myself (see a selection of mine on the 
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