Rutt Blees Luxemburg

Luxemburg was the guest lecturer I was most looking forward to because I had seen some of her work before she on The Streets 1st album cover. Luxemburg was really interesting and had a lot to say about her work and the development of her ideas into images, it was interesting to find out her work had also been used by Bloc Party as well as The Streets. she showed us A lot of her work and told us about each photograph individually and she really inspired my and made me what to try harder to become a photographer so maybe one day my work will be on the cover of my favourite artists album.


she showed us her work on a slide project which was different but in my eyes better as it showed a 'crisper' image, by this I mean the photos were clearer and i could see more detail than I would do on a powerpoint.

the images she showed us were taken at night so they all had a luminous effect, this made the images quite eary and scary as there in signs there is living people around but no actually signs of people or animals.

She did a series of photographs which she took from the top of buildings in a part of london no on really takes photos in. she told us that these images give the sence of adrenaline you get while standing at the edge of a high place like a building or a mountain.   




the image to the right is her most successful image but it isn't my favourite, this image does give off the effect she was after and it also has an abstract side to it like the rest but my favourite is the one she used for the streets album cover (image at the top of the page), not only was it used on the streets album but it's interesting to look, I enjoy the way that some of the lights in the flat are on and the way there are two white strips in the middle of the flat and the rest are a darker greenish brown colour.

I will consider looking at Luxemburgs work in the future and I was inspired to do well as a photographer by her talk.