Brook Reynolds

Brook reynolds is one of my favourite photographers and also videographers. Born and working in the US the majority of his photos are portraits, but the thing that attracts me most to his style of photography is the way he uses light and the way a story is told in each one of his photos. 

For example looking at the photo to the write the first thing that we are drawn to is the perfect path of smoke that trails up the character lieing on the roof. We can tell the photo was take with a remote flash which points directly towards the characters head when looking at the shape of the light ring around his head. 

The characters whole attire, body language and the environment we are in connotes a carefree life still of comfort and pleasure. 













One of my favourite photos taken by Brook Reynolds is the one below of train tunnel entrance with a group of people silhouetted by the light from the outside. The shot is a low angle photo connoting power from the individuals and makes us as an audience feel vulnerable. However the thing I most like about this photo is the mystery and innocence depicted. The shot looks more like a painting or piece of concept art that something that actually has been captured through a lense. The way these three teenagers sit so carefree in an extremely dangerous environment sums up the theory and idea of "youth". 

Then the way the light flares naturally from the trees into the lense and lights up the really the stone texture of the wall just fits perfectly with in the composition. Everything in the image works from the slightly off centred characters to the way that the majority of the mis en scene is actually blacked out beyond recognition inspires me most about photography.

Every photo is obviously staged but they are overflowing with raw emotion and I found that the longer I spent looking at each photograph the more I began to appreciate the time and effort put into each scene.

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