In depth analysis of Nina Chakrabarti

This photograph is by the photographer Nina Charabarti, she was born in India but now lives and works in London, England. Nina likes to use collage in her work and works with other artists when she can, she uses a variety of materials and media in the work, such as; felt tips, inks, Biro's and pencils, as well as different technology. The name of this piece of work is 'Voodoo Queen's' this work was featured in 'I want you' Magazine. This is a photograph of a woman with a Tribal design drawn directly onto the photograph. I have chosen to analyse this image because I like the style of her work and it is similar to William Hatch Crosby's work, I also like the texture that the design add's to the image and how it is mask-like.

This is the link to her website and the link to the magazine that her work was displayed;
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/07/27/nina-chakrabarti/
http://www.iwantyoumagazine.com/
 A quote that Nina said about her work 'Series of interventionist doodles'
The genre of these photographs could be both portraiture and fashion, the theme of them could be fashion, illustration and portraits. The title doesn't tell us much about the image it's self except that the models are female 'Queens'.

The aesthetics of this photograph/project;
the materials and techniques used to create this are a Biro pen that was used to draw the pattern onto the photograph and the photograph it's self. This photograph is in colour and is quite bright, the pattern on the other hand is in black and creates quite a contrast on the image. The scale of this photograph is no bigger than A4 as it was displayed in a magazine. 

I have chosen to look at this photograph I like the style of it and how the artist has drawn on top of it. my first reaction to it that it was something different but I liked it and found it quite interesting, I also decided that I wanted to use this image in my work and try to re-create something similar. I like that this image is quite bold and I like how it relates both to fashion and portraiture. This artist reminds me of William Hatch Crosby's work but more fashion like and more colourful and he does the opposite, using a black and white photograph and a coloured pattern. This work has inspired me to use it in my own work.  

While looking at her work I came across another artist called Jean-Luc Moreman, although the website is not in English, I do like this images as they are similar to Nina's work http://www.jeriko.de/2009/06/03/jean-luc-moerman/