Emma Summerton (Emma Summerton) biography and best photos

Emma Summerton is a fashion photographer, her work can be found on the pages of many famous glossy magazines. Looking at the photographs of fashion photographers, photographs from the gloss, it is difficult to determine how the photo of one photographer differs from the photo of another. Fashion, the world of fashion, the world of gloss dictates its own laws and rules. But, probably, it is worth agreeing that those photographers who managed to become in demand, whose photos with enviable consistency appear on the pages of the most famous magazines, and for whom no less famous models pose, nevertheless, have some kind of special uniqueness. , in their works there is definitely a presence, albeit elusive to the eye of a simple reader-viewer, but still their own handwriting, because it was they, and not anyone else, who were able to stand out from the crowd and take their place under the sun of the world of fashion photography.

Emma Summerton biography

Emma Summerton was born in 1970 in Australia. As a child, she dreamed of being an artist and even graduated from the National School of Art in Sydney. But then she left painting and took up photography, moved to London. Emma Summerton has been working as a fashion photographer since 1998: starting from an assistant and reaching the level, position, title, you can say whatever you want, a photographer who is in demand, a photographer who is not just hired, but invited.

In London, Emma worked as an assistant to photographer Fiona Banner, learning all the secrets of fashion photography. But she was not a newbie in this business, she already had some experience, previously Emma Summerton collaborated with Vogue Australia. Then her work begins to appear in French, and in Italian, and in the American, and in the British Vogue magazine, and not only in Vogue, but also in other equally famous fashion magazines, for example, W Magazine on the cover of which in her time, Emma Summerton photographed Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen.

Today Emma Summerton works not only for magazines, but also with world famous brands of clothing and cosmetics. She shot ad campaigns for Yves saint laurent (fall / winter 2007), Agent Provocateur, Miu Miu, Topshop (fall / winter 2008).

One of the most memorable works of Emma Summerton was a photo shoot of a number of famous black models for the Italian magazine Vogue, 2008. That issue of Italian Vogue called "All Black Issue" made a lot of noise. And it is not by chance, because such famous black models as Iman, Tyra Banks, took part in the photo session, Naomi Campbell, Jordan Dunn.

Previously, Emma Summerton was interested in shots from family albums, photographs of the 60s and 70s, which undoubtedly influenced her work, today the work of Emma Summerton is called playful and emotional, and definitely modern.