Flora Borsi

IREEL is a series of painted images don't by the artist Flora Borsi.  The hyper realistic painter aims at trying to achieve a result that looks like a real photographic image. She applies some colour and toning affects to the photographs and adjusted the contrast and shin retouching.



"A pictorialist photographer's desired result is visually equivalent to a painting."

Nickolay Lamm

Nickolay Lamm is a 26 year old artist who's mothers kitchen table is his studio. I came across his work while I was researching work for my dissertation and realised it was an influence in to recent studio work of mine - My Barbie image series.  I enjoy his work and efforts in trying to achieve his goal of getting the ideal body image of females available to them true a representation of an average teenage girl. It is a positive body image for young females to be introduced to.
What i find more interesting behind the project then the work itself is the reviews and feedback he has on the product. Many women and men around the world have ordered and received the barbie doll for themselves, their daughters and even their sons. His doll has made so many people more happy then the average barbie doll ever had.

This is a statement of his work i found on his website: "He scored a big hit last summer with his “regular Barbie” doll which — gasp! — actually possessed the body proportions of the average 19-year-old female. That was a digital mirage, but Mr. Lamm has spent much of the past year developing a real doll for sale called Lammily — complete with reusable stickers that mimic freckles, acne, cellulite, grass stains, moles and stretchmarks — and she’s been selling like hotcakes."

This is the software barbie doll he has produced too sell to families. Not only is the doll of average proportion but her clothing is also of ideal standard rather then the skimpy, non-appropriate style the barbie doll is sold with.


This is is the comparisons of the barbie doll that Lamm produced before he started creating his own doll. He uses the Mattel Barbie doll to show how out of proportion the doll is to the one he made.

Scanned self images

Taking images of yourself is a hard thing to do, especially when working on something like the topic of body image. These images iv uploaded before, but these have a twist to them. I painted over printed images, to try and create something new. I painted over the body figure, as if to hid them from people seeing them, like we do with make up, Photoshop, and Internet on a daily basis. I then scanned these images back onto my laptop and cropped them down. I thought there was something personal going on in the images, for me there is, but when i showed them to others, i got responses that they felt like they were spying on someone, like they shouldn't be looking at them. 

 These two images, are more abstract then the rest. This was purposely done because I was trying to achieve an image that looked like there was a figure within the page.