Inspired by heroin chic, grunge, old film and 90's supermodels. Grain, texture, out of focus, smudged. Less perfection, more feelings.
I think with modern day photography, we are often too focused on trying to create the perfect image, have the perfect model, lighting, colours, framing and post processing, that we loose the feeling we were trying to catch. I know it isn't like this for everyone, but for me, portrait photography is all about getting the feeling across the screen, from me to you. I know it's very different if you work on the commercial side of photography.
Nowadays you can re-take an image endless of times and then use hours and hours on Photoshop to try and make it perfect. And I hate it! I'm not saying I don't appreciate having all that technology to help me, but I think it can easily go too far and miss it's mark.
For example, that first image is horribly out of focus, yet I somehow like it. If I had tried to take it again with the right focus, I am sure I would have lost the original mood and facial expression, it has happened to me a million times when trying to fix some "problem" with the picture, you just can't get that split second back again like it was.
Me by me with Nikon D7200 and Nikkor 35mm 1.8G.
