Antony by Nick Knight

In November 2005, SHOWstudio offered it's international audience the unique opportunity to have their own photographic work featured in a Nick Knight photo shoot with Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Mecury Music prize winning group Antony and the Johnsons. As part of the concept for the portrait shoot on 1st December 2005, Nick Knight used a selection of photographic imagery, submitted by SHOWstudio viewers, to inspire an experimental musical performance. The visuals were projected onto Antony, resulting in a beautiful photographic spread that appeared in the February edition of i-D magazine. Incorporating a gallery with 500+ contributions from SHOWstudio viewers, documentation of the initial brief, shoot and the published story in i-D magazine, the project's spectacular finalé piece takes it's form in an atmospheric film –featuring Antony and a myriad of inspirational imagery courtesy of SHOWstudio' viewers- created by Nick Knight and edited by Sam Blair.
(text taken from showstudio.com)


This video is taken from youtube and is slightly distorted so here is a link to the original video... http://www.showstudio.com/projects/antony/movie


I really like the use of layers in this video. Although the video appears quite simple, using mostly still images with very subtle moving images appearing every so often, all the images are striking and work well together. The music is also a massive factor in how well the video works. I would like to attempt something similar in my work, however i may just concentrate on creating layered photographs. I feel this is still a challenge for me as my skills in Photoshop are not advanced.