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Photography
I use photography as an outlet to experiment, express, and document mine and others lives and situations. I have shot both studio and location photography. In regard to photography my interests and passions are wide, from portrait, campaign, fashion, documentary, architecture, street, and travel, all is something I am grateful to be able to capture. I shoot with both digital and 35mm film.
Mock Campaign
This campaign for their Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Stick's brings a new image to Dior with a brighter, more easy going atmosphere compared to their usual elegant look. The campaign focuses on summer advertising and is for people who want the natural summer blush and glow.
The lighting is simple and editing and retouches are little to show a real view of the product in action.Â
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Photography, lighting, editing, makeup, styling, and artistic direction, and all work done by Ireh Desjardins
Model is Nienke Burkhart
Documentary series
There is beauty in something that is left abandoned and unwanted. The journey of discovering a location, travelling with friends, and exploring the unknown and feeling that edge of excitement. It creates memories I wish everyone could experience. To find beautiful architecture varying from simple and bare to complex and messy, it is a place where there's no conformity. Always carrying the thought when walking along a street to peer into the cracked and pried fence, to discover a building seemingly ignored by everyone else walking along the same street. There is so much beauty in the chaos.
I spent four months travelling across Singapore and Malaysia to photograph abanonded places and sites. I find abandoned places so intriguing and beautiful. Architecture and structures that were human made then left for nature and time to take over show just a part of the small cycle of the world and being able to explore a place that has been (almost) untouched for a period of time. The series was shot on a Nikon FM3 on 35mm Ilford HP5 plus 400 and printed on Ilford Multigrade FB Classic Paper, Glossy, 8 x 10". The images above are direct scans of the film that I have done myself as I wait for a place where I scan the prints. The prints are pictured on the right.
Experimental Wood Print
The piece is made from 69 9x9cm wooden squares with images transferred through paint thinner. Each square is a segment of someones face who I met throughout my second semester studying at Nanyang Technological University. From teachers, to classmates, to my closest friends, it is a face moulded by my experiences.Â
Faces of Singapore
Concept Shoot
This shoot was to experiment with colour lighting, and movement in close up portraiture. All creative asepcts done by Ireh Desjardins. Model is Nienke Brukhadt
Model Digitals
Band Portrait Photos
Morir En Past is an emo-violence band based in Melaka, Malaysia. I worked with them to create a set of portrait photos encapsulating their music and the atmosphere they create. You can see the photography used in the promotional Instagram posts below.
