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5 ANNIE LEIBOVITZ INSPIRED

I guess it’s fair to say that if you’re into photography, you have heard of and seen the work of Annie Leibovitz. She is well known for her celebrity portraits and Vanity Fair covers, and who can forget her iconic portrait of then-pregnant Hollywood actress Demi Moore? And, of course, there’s also her series of portraits of HRH Queen Elizabeth II.

Some of her work includes elaborate, purpose-designed and -built sets with multiple lighting rigs, but it’s her simplistic one-light portraits that I’m particularly drawn to, for both the way in which the images are post-processed and the wonderful expressions Annie draws from ...

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