Photography for Design

Professional practise evening lecture 26/01/2011
Lecture Misha Haller see more on www.mischaphoto.com
Context : reportage and photography for design.

Topic : Photography for design.

Misha Heller is a Swiss photographer who lives and works in London.
One of Misha Heller photographic series of his debut was for the Independent Magazine, it was a series of close shots of the human parts that became sensual abstracts, it was untitled “the naked truth”. And, to me, this expression embodies the essence of his work as a photographer. His camera is the extension of his eye and sensibility; it gently captures the beauty of gestures, attitudes, and details of everyday life without any artefacts, only the clever choice of each angle and layout. Modern times are particularly harsh with photography, the technique is often put before the meaning, as a result, there is an over-use of photoshop and pictures aren’t telling their original story. Moreover, with the digital age, everything has to be in motion; therefore, photography is highly discredited.
But what if this motion wasn’t to be found physically but metaphorically? Indeed, Heller’s pictures are fragments of moving narratives that we can construct for ourselves, actually, that what Heller did himself he told us the story of a photographer’s journey presenting us the protagonists and anecdotes. Behind each picture there’s a never ending story, and if I had to keep one lesson from this lecture is that you don’t need to show everything to tell most of the story and that we should leave a bit to this precious gift we have: imagination.




Chloe Belloin
MACD