"Gemma is a confident and vibrant photographer working primarily in and around London. Her work is very stylised, with bright colours often being present in the shot."









If you could be sued for plagiarism by any artist, living or dead, whom would it be?

It would be David Lachapelle, his work is so colourful and sexy and he is doing exactly what I would love to be doing, grand set designs, organised chaos. He doesnt just take photos of the classically beautiful, he finds the beauty in everyone and everything around him. Every time I look thru his books I notice another minor detail that I had not noticed before. To have someone like David use my work as his own would really make me realise that all my hard work had paid off.

For someone who is unfamiliar with your work, how would you describe your work?

This is a hard..... Maybe because we are our own worst critics and I generally have my feet o­n the ground.....

where to start....

Well I would describe my passion is to make things look sexy but in a bold and vibrant way this often lends itself to using very vibrant colours but not always, sometimes it's the makeup design, or the passionate look that makes the photo intense. My style uses a lot of creative input. I do not just shoot a model against a colourama paper roll, I find backdrops from wall paper designs, table cloth patterns, sheets of materials, I find props in joke shops, clothes from all aspects. I often buy something but do not know what I am going to do with it at first and then I get inspired.

My inspirations make me get a glint in my eye and a chest full of air and I think you can tell that within my photos, you can see the passion that has gone into them.

I work fast, and by that I mean I do not take 400 photos of the same outfit, same pose etc  this makes everyone involved bored and you always go back to the 1^st 20 anyway, which ends up making my photos feel a lot more alive as everyone involved is having fun.