SURREAL & CREATIVE PORTRAITS | Lucy Jane Purrington

LUCY PURRINGTON

PORTRAITS

Portraits of musicians, models, authors, poets and playwrights, dancers, performers, accessibility angels, creative cobblers, all inspiring and wonderful people.

This is a colourful portrait photograph of a woman stood amongst tall grass wearing a long red dress. On her head is a golden crown made of individual spikes that protrude out in a pattern. The grassy field aorund her is golden in warm tones and the sky above is in unusual hues of deep blue and pink like a sunset. Her arms are raised towards the sky and above her is a large full moon, slightly covered by these colourful clouds.

This is a portrait colour photograph of a most wonderful magical human wearing all white in a dark and mysterious looking forest. The model has long white blonde straight hair and is wearing a long white dress. On their head is a white headpiece made of white flowers and pearls. Two black horns protrude from the model's head.
The model's hands are both raised at their sides and magical white lightening sparks up above their head in the scene.

This is a portrait black and white photograph of a man wearing a pale grey suit jacket, black hat and matching black jeans and shirt stood in a field with a dark background. He has ‘corpse’ make up on which is like a skull. The areas of his skin around his mouth, nose and eyes are painted black and stand out against his Winter pale skin. The image is blurred with double exposures of the man in a slightly different position and therefore seems a bit creepy.

This is a landscape wide shot of a girl with auburn hair floating in the centre of the image in a forest scene. She is wearing a long red dress that flows downwards to the ground and then loops around the image twice in a circular pattern. Her arms are placed criss-cross style over her chest and her hair also appears to be floating. The forest scheme around her is in tones of green and dark brown for the floor. Beams of light fall through the canopy of trees and light the red fabric and girl.

This is a portrait colour photograph of a man dressed in black with auburn hair crouched on a tree stump. His arms are raised to his back as he holds a wide tree that spans upwards and out of the image above him. Around his is a scene of other tall pine trees with greeny - blue bark and a red floor covered in dead pine needles. The man's face is concealed by his arms but his pose suggests that he is struggling to hold the weight above him.

This is a portrait image of the band, Dead End Disco. The photograph is of a field with tall grass and a blue sky above with white fluffy clouds dotted around. Two men are stood in the field, looking away from each other. The image has been manipulated so that it looks like a broken mirror with shards of reflected image cut and copied. Because of this effect, there is two versions of the men stood, each cut out and duplicated. The image has unusual tones of orange and ultra blue, referencing the 1990’s musical aesthetic.

A slender man stands topless with his arms bent and stretching outwards. His head is also looking upwards with his eyes closed as a few dozen orange and brown coloured moths flutter around him and sit upon his face, chest and hands. The scene is in a woodland area with tall trees behind. A warm glow surrounds the scene, as if it were by magic that these moths are drawn to the man.

The photograph is of a man stood in a forest of tall pine trees. He has silver short hair, pale skin and is dressed all in black; jeans, jumper, boots and a long sleeved jacket.
He is positioned in the bottom left section of the image and appears to be leaning backwards with an unnatural posture with his arms outstretched.
His back seem to be exploding into shards of small black fragments as black crows emerge and fly away into the forest scene as though the man was dissolving and becoming part of nature and the landscape.

His facial expression is calm and without pain nor confusion that one might expect at this unusual scenario.
His arms slightly outstretched suggest that he is content with this odd transformation, perhaps embracing the experience as though it was inevitable.

The trees around the man are bare, as though this image was captured in winter perhaps.
The tall and thick trunks of the trees add a subtle warm orange and brown tone to the otherwise stark landscape. The forest floor is a light reddish-brown colour from the dead pine needles left by the trees.

This is a landscape format picture of a man with silver hair stood in front of a dark blu e background. His arms are folded and he is looking to the bottom left side of the image. He is wearing a leopard print scarf and a military style black and grey jacket.

A man stands with his eyes closed and his chest bare in a darkened forest of tall fur trees. As the viewer, we’re looking in through shattered glass with shards broken and reflecting a distorted version of the image. The man has long auburn hair and pale Winter skin. A tattoo adorns each arm; hands held together in prayer and the other of Owain Glyndwr on horseback.

This portrait image is cropped as a square like shape, much like a music CD or record cover. The photo is of a woman sat on a rocky ledge of a cliff. She is looking outward into the distance and not at the camera. She is wearing a white floaty victorian styled dress. A cloudless blue sky contrasts with the flowing red hair of the model. The image has a slightly green hue to it, much like the vintage record covers that are colour degraded by age.

This is a portrait image of a woman stood in a burnt landscape of charcoaled grass and shrubs. The woman is wearing a floaty long white dress and has has long ginger dreadlocks and pale skin. She is stood, bare footed upon a rock. Her arms are raised in the air with what appears to be broken glass fragments around them. The shattered glass is both behind her one hand and in front of the other, suggesting that she is trapped in a glass box that we cannot see except for the broken areas.

This is a format close up image exclusively n tones of orange and black. The photograph is a close up of a man with long jaw length curly hair that is looking directly into the camera. You can see the top of his black vest. Behind him are naked tree branches raising up to the orange toned sky.

This is two images side by side with a thin white border in between. The image on the right is of a burnt mountainside with tall black curved branches. The image on the left mirrors this with the same curved black branches running across the photo, except a man with jaw length auburn hair is stood in front of the piercing branches. Parts of his face are obscured, but his one eye is visible and is looking directly into the camera in a confrontation manner.

This is a photograph of a snowy scene of tall fur trees encroaching from the left and right side of the image, following the trail of a wide path into the distance. A man without a top or shoes on appears to be floating above the snow as if by magic. His auburn hair stands out against the tones of white snow. His arms are outstretched, attempting to cling on to steady himself as he levitates.

This is a black and white portrait image of a blurred figure in motion. The figure is a topless man with tattoos adorning his arm, although it is unclear what they are. His head is moving from side to side creating a blurred and surreal effect that conceals his face.

This portrait image is of a topless man with a slight build and chin length curly hair. An orange coloured light illuminates the left side of the image against the black background and contras against the blue light that highlights the opposite side. A somewhat eerie atmosphere is created with the unusual lighting and colours and is reinforced by the model’s direct stare into the camera.

This is a landscape image of a sea scape at dusk, just after the sun has set and darkness has creeped into the scene. A girl with long dark hair is stood in waist high water with her head down towards the sea around her. She appears to be blurred through motion or perhaps due to a double exposure where two images are combined. It could be interpreted as her aura seeping from her body to create this other ghostly like figure next to her.

This is a black and white portrait shot of a man stood in front of a white background. It is cropped from his chest upwards. The model is topless with his hands painted black as they gently hold each side of his face. He is also looking directly at the camera.

This is a landscape image of a man with jaw length hair submerged in pale blue water. The close up crop of the photo feels intrusive and with only a thin slither of the model’s face shown, it is unclear as to why he is underwater. White flecks of water reflect a light source from above.

This is a landscape image image of a woman who is shot the lower shoulders upwards. The photo is in black and white and is muted tones so that the black is more of a dark grey. A thick black rope is wrapped tightly around the model’s face, concealing parts of the facial features. Both of her hands are raised and are grabbing at the rope in an attempt to pull it away.

This is a portrait shot of a woman’s back and neck with the top of her head cut out from the top of the image. She has short curly hair which exposes her neck and back. The model is wearing a dark silver necklace that loops down her freckled back and wraps around to the sides of her waist.

This is a bright and colourful portrait image shot in summer with golden yellow and subtle pink tones. A woman wearing a white dress with pale skin, red lips and long brown hair is sat in a field of tall sunlit grass. Behind her are tall trees. The sun gentle catches the side of her hair and illuminates the golden tones within it. She appears to be calm and relaxed and is looking away from the camera and slightly upwards as if daydreaming.

This is a landscape image of a woman laying on the floor in a tight blood red dress. Her arm is raised to her head and she is looking directly up at the camera. There are unusual tones of green and red in this image, as if altered or shot with expired and out of date film. The model is cropped from her lower waist upwards. The floor in which she is laying on is brown carpet.

This is a landscape image of a woman cloaked in a sky blue long piece of fabric that is blowing in the wind outwards to the left side of the image behind her. In the background is a seascape and blue sky with small whet clouds forming above the horizon which is a third of the way up in the picture.

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