I think the month of May is really quite a coincidental month. On 1st May 2014 the abandoned crew, Logen, Ashrul, Annabelle and I went to Gormanston, a ghost town in Tasmania. On 2nd May 2016, 2 years and 1 day after Gormanston, I went to Braddell-Westlake, the abandoned school in Singapore as shown in the post below.
On 14th May 2014, I did a photoshoot with Annabelle at the Cataract Gorge.
On 14th May 2016, I did a photoshoot with Annabelle at my other apartment in Pasir Ris.
Honestly when Annabelle and I started this whole thing, it was at the abandoned asylum in Hobart and we kind of just kicked off from there. We always had the rather dark tones to the photos with the abandoned desolate feel. She had the gaze and expression to do it and I had the natural style of getting those moods. Doing this recent one was quite a challenge as we decided to go for a more classy indoor shoot, quite reminiscent of what Korean editorials, or even Thai editorials, show these days. We kept subconciously reverting back to the overly serious tones and we had to constanctly keep ourselves in check. Annabelle and I regularly looked up online for references and different poses as well throughout the shoot to keep things refreshing. I have to say I am quite pleased with the overall result, especially having not shot her since 2014.
That being said, I am quite glad that I did not shoot her for almost 2 years. It gave me the time and space to grow as a photographer and better myself. No point taking so regularly that they all look the same. I guess the same goes for Namie, having taken her in 2014 and 2016 as well with the 2 year gap.
So once again, I still believe Annabelle is the person I work with the best when it comes to portraitures and I hope the photos below will justify that. Enjoy.
Sweet Surrender, 14/5/2016. Model: Annabelle Lee
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