Photography and the Uncertainty Principle

Ivory silk chiffon wedding dress by Joanne Fleming Design

Regular visitors to the blog may recognise this model and dress from a set of images I posted before Christmas by Russian photographer Anna Radchenko. Whilst Anna was in the UK last year she collaborated with Dorset based photographer Tom Wishart of OneThousandWords in setting up a couple of shoots together. Tom has just sent me these lovely pictures, and you can see Anna's set here. 

I love the way each photographer has told a different story, using the same model and setting; Tom's images have a romantic ethereality about them, with the pale greens and whites looking dreamily Spring-like, despite being shot in the depths of winter.

 The cold blues and greys of Anna's set create the illusion of a frosty, snow strewn backdrop, and she has captured/created an underlying tension between figure and landscape that suggests an uneasy narrative behind the images.

It just goes to show how how creative the process of photography really is ....it is never a question of merely capturing some absolute reality. As Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle acknowledges, the observer affects the observed........thus in every image, there is the shadow of the artist at work.

all images © Tom Wishart

And here's Tom's images of Julie in the 'Hellebore' silk organza dress, embellished with drifts of glittering Swarovski crystals. A silvery mermaid emerges from the sea under the corroded girders of the pier. 

Silver silk organza mermaid dress by Joanne Fleming Design