TIME WITH JOAN by photographer Bronwyn Kidd paints an intimate environmental portrait of a subject that we all thought we knew. The portrait focus being a celebration of imagination and passion, and the interview being the reveal of personal history, vulnerabilities and insights.
My fascination with portraiture is that permission is given to the artist to document, interpret and capture the very essence of their subject.
I have had wondrous conversations with people that I may have never in my lifetime met, let alone had dialogue with if I did not have a camera in my hand. The camera serves in many ways as a rite of passage, a privilege, an invitation.
What I have gained for my life from a portrait session is not only the picture, a material representation of 'time spent', but the undocumented quotations and insights. I have come away in awe, laughing, honored, intrigued, learned and inspired. It is a great picture that can portray all these things.
What I have gained for my life from a portrait session is not only the picture, a material representation of 'time spent', but the undocumented quotations and insights. I have come away in awe, laughing, honored, intrigued, learned and inspired. It is a great picture that can portray all these things.
The filming of each TIME WITH JOAN session documents the wonderful stories, the brilliance and the passion of JOAN'S contributors. Contributors from the worlds of fashion, art, performance, literature, innovation and spiritedness.
It is the informal 'confabulation' that happens within the time frame of the sitting that is often the trigger for the final image. And it is the experience of portrait making that is TIME WITH JOAN.
BRONWYN KIDD PHOTOGRAPHER
Bronwyn Kidd's fashion and portrait photography is characterised by an unyielding dedication to elegance, precision and timelessness.
Kidd has created award winning campaigns for Covergirl, advertising for L'Oreal, Olay and has portraits held in permanent collection in the National Portrait Gallery London.
Kidd studied photography at the prestigious Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before heading to London, where she landed assisting roles with celebrated British photographer Clive Arrowsmith and with fellow Australian portraitist Polly Borland.
At 23 Kidd fell into the arms of the Queens Couturier Sir Hardy Amies, where she shot exclusively for his Savile Row seasonal collections and advertising using famed British model Paula Hamilton.
Kidd's work maximises the utility of the camera and has a strong emphasis on the brilliance of creating light.
Beyond all the finesse her natural affinity for fashion is reflected in a distinctly modern photographic style which has seen her work featured in Global campaigns for Adidas, Gossard, Levis, Mikimoto, Renault and editorial for Tatler, Harpers & Queen, Cosmopolitan and Vogue.
With a career spanning over 20 years, Kidd is a modern portraitist.
