I came across the work of Sarah Small today, via Flak Photo, and was pretty much blown away. Every shot in her portfolio is a winner, and many of them made me verbally exclaim when I first saw them. The juxtaposition of people - old vs. young, naked vs. clothed, ugly vs. atttractive - is striking. She often uses these combinations in conjunction with extreme posing; the effect is pretty jarring, yet oddly beautiful.
Twins, old naked people, vibrant colours, children’s expressions and long hair caught mid-movement; all these feature heavily in Small’s work, and make for one of the most cohesive and distinctive bodies of work I’ve seen in some time.
