• Vee Speers The Birthday Party
  • Vee Speers The Birthday Party
  • Vee Speers The Birthday Party
  • Vee Speers The Birthday Party
  • Vee Speers The Birthday Party

Vee Speers The Birthday Party

This is a series of portraits of children about to attend an imaginary birthday party. Inspired by her daughter's birthday party Speers imagined what characters might be created if role play were pushed to imaginative extremes. The children are placed in front of the same white wall and gaze into the lens of the camera, performing within a strictly laid out frame. They reveal very little of themselves and yet this is what makes the portraits so magnetic. The childlike game of dressing up, of putting on costumes, reinforces the surreal tone of the series. "My intention was to show a real side of human nature, to expose a side of childhood that is not care-free or clichéd, and project a range of emotions and definitions which are part of an imperfect world." (Vee Speers)

Since 1990 Vee Speers (b. 1962 in Australia) has been based in Paris, working in fashion, photojournalism and fine art photography. Widely exhibited throughout Europe, the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and Australia, her work has been published in e.g. The Sunday Times, Harpers&Queen, GQ, and Esquire, and is included in collections, e.g. the Eastman House, the Elton John Collection, the DZ Bank, or the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Hardcover 27,2 x 33 cm 96 pages 44 color illustrations German Out of print ISBN 978-3-86828-129-3 2010

Artist:

Vee Speers

Texts:

Susan Bright

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