Metz and Rucine work together as a team to create still life imagery. They have had work published in Vogue, i - D, Dazed + Confused and many more so a lot of their work is editorial.
" We love to play and it feels magical that we can make a living out of it"
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| Metz and Rucine - Colour Blocks |
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| Metz and Rucine - Colour Blocks |
You can see through this series of 'colour blocks' that they are into producing unusual editorial work. These images I feel represent fashion without having a model. How they have structured the objects on the bottom image seems like they were trying to construct a person lying down with their feet in the air. Showing their idea of fashion photography through still life imagery.
Although Metz and Rucine are still life photographers they have a reputation for their not so still life images. They bring the images to life.
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| Metz and Rucine - Moment Bends |
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| Metz and Rucine - With Kitchen |
They seem to capture the stillness of life even though those objects were not still. They are trying to create something different and original. The top image to me seems to create a sense of dying. The sticks acting like cigarettes being stubbed out. They act like a weakness by how bent they are and the dark gloomy background adds to the effect.
I have learnt that still life photography can create so many different ideas and concepts behind them. They can be as crazy and unusual as you want and yet they seem to make sense.
Sources
METZ + RACINE . 2011. METZ + RACINE . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.metzracine.com/. [Accessed 13 December 2011]
Smyth. D S. 2011. Workers playtime. British journal of PHOTOGRAPHY, A different take, volume158/issue number 7785, 28 - 39
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