Jessica Tremp’s work is combination of “found”
scenes from her travels, and posed shots, both in the studio and in natural
settings. Although she’s known for shooting portraits and landscapes, her diverse
work is united by their soft muted colors, which she achieves through editing.
In studio, she experiments with both patterned and plain backdrops, and often
has her models lie down so she can shoot them from above.
According to her personal statement on her website, Tremp is
inspired by theatrics, romanticism, and nature. Her posed photographs often
contain nude female figures in a natural environment, obviously inspired by romantic
art. Although her work does have a whimsical theatricality to it, there is also
subtle macabre quality to her work. Lying down, her figures are often limp, and
her use of muted colors adds to the “dead” appearance of her models. In her
work she is not only exploring the beauty of humans and nature, but also death.
My favorite element of Tremp’s photographs is the beautifully
creepy quality to them. The same things that seem to draw you into the
photograph (ie: beauty of the female form) also push you away (ie: but is she
dead??). I also like the way she uses a palette of muted colors to unite all of
her work, despite the fact their themes are often very different.
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