Olivia Parker works in black and white and her photography is inspired by still life paintings. Her images are usually of plants, insects and fruit amongst other things. Her photographs, whether they are of living things, or things that were once living, suggest an air of death, due to the contrasting and varying tones of her black and white images. She has made black and white as well as colour images in many formats from 4 x 5 to 20 x 24. She also uses a Canon 1D Mark III and 1Ds Mark II. As far as I can tell, she does not digitally manipulate her photographs, prefering to construct her subjects in a studio environment. Her work has been seen in over one hundred exhibitions worldwide and is also featured private and corporate as well as museum collections. I really like Olivia Parker's work because of the high contrast and the desolate atmosphere. You really get a feel of death and decay looking at her images, they are almost abstract in the way that they seem to be out of context but you know what the subjects are because they are things that are familiar to you. The black and white almost gives it an x-rayed feel, or that of a negative, which really helps with the death theme. The use of a studio space and the fact that Parker constructed her compositions herself in the studio also really helps with the fact that her subjects are out of context and out of a setting in which we are used to seeing them.
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