Photographer 5 - Yulia Gorbachenko

Yulia Gorbachenko

Yulia Gorbachenko is a fashion and beauty photographer from New York City. She uses a mixture of portraiture and still life shots for her work. Her portraiture work is of her models with either certain products on their faces for advertisements or with her models made up in different makeup styles.

This photograph is showing different sponges/applicators on the palm of someones hand, going in the pattern of 1 pink and then 2 white. This makes the pink applicators stand out. There is also some powder which looks like a setting/loose powder which is falling on top of all the applicators, to capture this Yulia would need to have a quick shutter speed. The background is a dark colour so that the colours of the sponges etc. stand out more.

This photograph is showing a model with a salt scrub on her face, this adds a certain texture to her face which is detectable through the image. The green colour of her eye is bold and eye catching as it is the only colour in a very neutral image. The lighting of this image looks as if the light has been angled and so is only shining on one side of the models face. 

This is a very textured image as it is showing a powdery substance on top of the lipstick and due to the close up technique used it captures this detail well. The colour is bold and pigmented and this contrasts to the dark shadowing on the surrounding skin. 

This photograph is showing a model with bright eye shadow and lipstick, the light is highlighting the facial part of the model and the background behind the model has no light and a dark background has been used. This makes the colours used on the model stand out boldy. 

I like Yulias work as it captures several different textures within several different images. I would like to try and experiment with textures of products in some of my images as I like the overall effect this has on the photographs. 

In summary, Yulia's work uses a mixture of colour and texture in her photography, I also like her usage of the close up technique as I feel this gains an in depth sight into the textures etc.