Jade Beall

About Jade

“I have come to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had  and lift you like a prayer to the sky” ~ Rumi

Jade Beall is a Tucson, AZ based world-renown Photographer specializing in truthful images of women to inspire feeling irreplaceably beautiful as a counter-balance to the airbrushed photoshopped imagery that dominates main stream media. Her recent work "A Beautiful Body Project" has touched 100,000's of women's lives and garnered global attention from media outlets including the BBC, The Huffington Post & beyond. Jade's book series and media platform feature untouched photos of women alongside their stories of their journeys to build self-esteem in a world that thrives off women feeling insecure. Jade's dream is to inspire future generations of women to be free from the unnecessary self-suffering and embrace their beauty just as they are.

"I am here to be a facilitator for living Heaven on Earth. I am here to support Your Waking Dream.  I am here to stand in my Authentic Beauty and reflect Your Divine Gorgeousness.  I am here to be a radiant reflection of Life.  I am Life.  You are Life.  All of this that we are and that we have: is Divine.  All of this is: Magic.  All of this: Just Is."  -Jade Beall

Francoise Nielly

Francoise Nielly is an artist my sister came across doing support studies for her Junior Cert project and I instantly fell in love with her work. Her use of colour is intense and eye catching. The colour she uses is influenced by the classical, florescence imagery of South France. The use of knives to create the paintings leave clean thick brush strokes. She was taught as a child that there is no room for mistakes, and with an influence of architecture, you can see the construction in the faces are an extreme strong point.

 http://www.francoise-nielly.com/

                    

   

Day in the woods

Images taken from a housemate day out to Curraghcase 

Sheila Pree Bright

While writing my dissertation about the media and celebrity influences on body image I did research on artists that were involved in this topic. One of these artists is Sheila Pree Bright.

I instantly fell in love with her work.  

The first project of hers that i found was Plastic Bodies. Here is an artist statement:

"Bright create images that critique society’s fascination with the unreal and morph human skin onto a toy figure, showing the fine line that is often drawn between reality and fabrication in American culture. French social theorist Jean Baudrillard describes this concept as “The Precession of Simulacra.” He states,

The concept of simulation suggests the fabrication of what is real through conceptual or “mythological” models has no connection or origin in reality. Instead of the reality, the model becomes the determinant of our perception of reality. Therefore ideal models presented through the media, such as homes, relationships, fashion art and music all become dictated by the given ideal. This creates a world of hyper-reality where the distinctions between real and dream like

are blurred.

Plastic Bodies series show the impact that media and advertising play in defining beauty for girls and women and how Barbie is used in Western culture to encourage one standard of beauty."


Whist reseaching her i found this project Young Americans

"Recently, Bright took the Young Americans portraits to the streets of Art Basel Miami   2012, wheat pasting eleven images in the Coconut Grove neighbourhood on building and abandon homes that are often unnoticed in the urban landscape.  Bright revisits the series which exhibited as a solo show at the High Museum  of Atlanta in 2008, curated by Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography and Chief Curator  of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The work examines attitudes and values of Generation Y as American citizens. The series shows diverse young Americans, who are new to the voting system, and exploring ideas of what it means to be American. The sitters expressed their perspectives in a statement and posed in their chosen stance with the American flag. "



And then this one called Suburbia 


"Bright received national attention after winning the Santa Fe Prize from the Santa Fe Center for photography in 2006 for a series of work entitled Suburbia . The series takes aim at the American media's projection of the "typical" African American community and depicts a more realistic and common ideology of African American life. The series also explore the variations and similarities of an existence that subverts lifestyle and culture, particularly as it relates to Americanism."

Trip to Fota Island

This blog is not only college work but contains some of my own photography images as well. This entry is just about a trip to Fota island I took with friends however, after looking at the images I have found more to it then that. More to follow on that topic :)