#eva vermandel

[pjhfan83]

pjh by Eva Vermandel

[bitchtoss]

Amy Winehouse photographed by Eva Vermandel, 2003

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in New York in 2004, photographed by Eva Vermandel for Time Out (which was presumably going for some kind of award for 'how many lazy stereotypes can you fit into a single strapline' because GOOD GRIEF JUST LOOK AT IT).

A B&W version of the main portrait shot is the one he used as a headshot when he was on the Berlinale jury in 2007, so presumably he liked it.

[hildeeveraert]

𝐵𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓋𝑒𝒾𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝑒𝓉𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 🤍

Eva Vermandel, Sinead O'Connor

[selkiesparrow]

JOANNA NEWSOM, AT HOME IN LOS ANGELES, 2015 FOR SYDNEY FESTIVAL 40 PORTRAITS, PHOTO BY EVA VERMANDEL   

The photographer, Eva Vermandel, on Joanna Newsom’s portrait:

I have so many favourite portraits of yours, can you please share your thoughts on some of your faves? The first one that springs to mind is my portrait of Joanna Newsom which I shot for the Sydney Festival 40 Portraits commission in 2015. I’d long wanted to photograph her, she’s been a source of inspiration for many years. The photograph was the last frame I shot that day, and I could feel we were building up towards something out of the ordinary. She walked up the tree, like a squirrel with the elegance of a ballerina, and then stood there moving her arms around until I pressed the shutter. It captures her music and character perfectly – she looks like a fairy, blended into her environment, with the interplay between the foliage and her dress creating a rhythm. I’m very proud of it.

[...] Musician Joanna Newsom​ welcomed the photographer into her Los Angeles home with a trepidation that prompts Vermandel to observe: "A lot of beautiful famous people are very nervous about having their picture taken." Newsom had a glass of whiskey, then walked into her garden to pose. Vermandel typically arrives at a shoot with only two or three rolls of film, each containing just 10 frames, and, upon telling her subject they had reached the final frame, watched as Newsom "started walking up [a] tree – I still don't understand how she did it".

[...] At the end of my shoot with Joanna Newsom she effortlessly climbed up a tree and seemed to be floating in it like a fairy – it all just happened.

[medullam]

Shaznay Lewis, ph. Eva Vermandel [2004]

[allaboutwilson]

“My job is to find the humanity in her [Mrs Coulter]. I don’t think she’s a simple black-and-white villainess.” [*]

[scrungleworm]

PJ Harvey, by Eva Vermandel (2007)