1. Vee Speers

2. Powerful quote
• ‘I don’t like to follow the crowd.
I like to seduce, with images that are at once disturbing
and beautiful,
but leaving a space for the viewer to enter my world.
My portraits combine elements which evoke conflicting
emotions that can surprise the viewer, telling a story that
is somewhere
between fantasy and reality, the obvious and the
unexpected.’
Vee Speers

3. Backround info
• Born : 1962
• Nationality : Australian
• Speers has studied art and photography in
Brisbane and worked during the 1980s as
a still photographer for ABC Television in
Sydney
• Vee Speers is now a world famous
photographer

4. The Birthday series
This is not the whole Birthday
series, it’s only 6 chosen pictures.

11. How Vee Speers inspires me
• Vee is a very daring photographer and
isn’t scared to do what she wants in life, all
of her photo’s are different and stand out
from any other photographer I know.

12. Powerful quote #2
•
For one of your series, “Bordello,” what ideas or feelings did
you hope to evoke while photographing other members of your
sex?
• First of all, respect was a big thing: beautiful, respectful, sensual. I
think the feminine regard on another woman is quite different to the
male regard, which maybe has more sexual tension because it’s a
natural thing, isn’t it, male and female, whereas between women
there is a lot of trust and relaxation. There’s not this need to pose or
to please. This isn’t a criticism, but in men’s nude photographs of
women there is this sexual regard that can be more straight forward,
or more explicit. Rather than focusing on it being a nude, I looked at
the poetry and nostalgia of it. I wanted to tell a story: I live in the Red
Light district; I see prostitutes on the street every day.