I first saw this image when Hannah Starkey was featured as one of the winners of the 1997 John Kobal Foundation, National Portrait Gallery, London.
I travelled to the Maureen Paley gallery in backstreets of Bethnal Green and saw the larger than life size images. They move me.
Please click here to view Hannah Starkey profile on Maureen Paley website.
I am inspired by her mix of artifice and natural. She chooses real women as actors in her staged photographs which summon a specific moment that reminds me of a feeling I have had.
I love her use of light which reminds me of the paintings of Edward Hopper.
