Model: Maria Helen H / Trend
Hair/Makeup: Madeleine Nilsson
Assistants: Jon Danielsen / Camilla H. Jenssen
Model: Maria Helen H / Trend
Hair/Makeup: Madeleine Nilsson
Assistants: Jon Danielsen / Camilla H. Jenssen
The Christmas holidays are upon us… us being the students at Norsk Fotofagskole. After 3 intense weeks of hard work, it feels deserved. 3 intense, but incredibly fun, and inspiring weeks. Our teacher GT gave us a very open assignment, it was a group project with 8 members in each group and we were told to make a fashion magazine. We got to choose the name ourself, and we went for “Escape” and decided we wanted a fairly glossy magazine. The members of the group were: Ole Ekker, Madeleine Nilsson, Nina Mørk Johansen, Bente Isefjær, Erik Drabløs, Johannes Selvaag, Ingunn Grøntvedt and myself.
Only requirements were that our series included one of each of the following:
- Celebrity shoot (cover story)
- Winter series
- Mens fashion
- Party/eveningwear
- Haut Coutour
- Retro
the rest of the series we could chose ourselves.
I went for a studio shoot based on Paolo Roversi’s “A White Story”, model is Amanda S from Trend Models, hair and makeup by Trine Sundli:
The whole magazine can be viewed as a video here:
or as a flash document that you can flip through at your own pace (by clicking the corners) at http://www.escape-magazine.net
I also want to congratulate the whole group for winning the competition for best magazine! Well done guys :)
Charlotte Thorstvedt is known for her run as VJ on MTV, hosting amongst other things the Europe-wide Euro Top 20. She then went on to being the host on the first season of the Norwegian version of X-factor. She is also a very popular DJ, playing gigs all over Oslo, and other main cities in Norway.
Having gone to the same school as Charlotte, it became a fairly obvious choice to ask her when given the assignment at school to photograph a high-profile person. Am very happy she had the time and I will be posting some of the results here in time.
Charlotte also has a blog which is worth checking out, both to stay up to date with what she is up to, her music, and also for photographic inspiration:
Here is a short behind the scenes video of the photoshoots for the magazine. Thanks to Erik Drabløs who edited it together.
Bouquet was one of the more colorful collections shown at Oslo Fashion Week. It was designed by debutant (I believe, correct me if I’m wrong) Ankita Bhatia and bears a very strong Indian influence. Personally this was my favourite show, Daniel Franck’s show was also very entertaining, but appealed to a very different side of me.
I have not been able to find a web presence for Bouquet yet, if anyone knows of one, please let me know and I will link to it from here.