Siren

A detail from another photograph from the shoot. Last weekend I worked with a model to produce a set of photographs based around the concept of the siren, a mythological character from Homer’s Odyssey. The subject matter had been suggested by the model when she was life-modelling for me some months earlier - actually the character was initially suggested as a mermaid, a cryptid often mixed up with sirens in the medieval period, but I wanted to steer closer to the original Ancient Greek myth. I did consider taking the photographs on a local naturist beach, but the lighting I wanted to achieve would have been impossible, so instead they were taken in my studio as normal. This did result in the backdrop being clearly a backdrop—the folds and wrinkles in the cloth clearly visible—rather than a dusky sky, but I liked the exposure of the artifice. The first Siren photograph - click image for gallery page I’ve published one of the photographs from the shoot on this website (click the image…