Vincent Peters

Research for the portrait project

Vincent Peters´ website

Vincent Peters began his creative journey by taking pictures while traveling through Thailand in the 1980´s. Later on he became less commercialised by focusing on photography as a fine art. His fine art work was exhibited all over Europe and published in many periodicals. In 1990 he changed his focus again and dedicated himself to fashion and celebrity photography. His work has been published by many succesful fashion brands such as Vogue, ELLE, GQ, Dazed, The face and many more.

He is also known for his use of film and analogue photography. Stating in an interview for fotografiska, "I want to convey something genuine without the technology getting in the way of that meeting. (...)   using analogue technology to preserve our photographic heritage is a means of upholding an important tradition." This gives his images a really nice look and is making me really want to learn how to use film.


I knew Peters from a photography exhibition I saw in Sweden (it was the Light within exhibition in Fotografiska) where there was some of his work on display. I remeber particularly falling in love with the portraits he had taken of Emma Watson, the images just stuck into my head. 

He has managed to capture an incredible amout of detail into them, you can see every one of her freckles, the texture of her skin, her eyelashes. There´s a kind of intensity to them. There´s also a small level of surrealness to his images which I really like. Like Viviane Sassen, Peters´s work is in the fashion photography world, but with an added twist. I´d love to capture something like this in my potrait. 








Peter Renn tutorial

When I was talking about my ideas and experiments during the tutuorial I realised my favourite photo that I had taken was of Ben with the chain in his mouth. Peter suggested that the pink colour wasn´t doing much for the image and I completely agreed with him. He also explained to us that we could make our portraits black and white (it doesn´t count as editing) so that gave me new ideas. I realised the photo of Ben would probably look good in black and white so I went to edit it it and was really happy with the result. (The b&w reminded me of Peters so I decided to look into him). I think next I will experiment with b&w imagery and try to capture a portrait like these ones.