Digipack Covers - Similar Artwork

PJ Harvey's photographer is Maria Mochnacz. Her image has been constructed by the photographer and by other creative teams such as make-up and costume designers.



Maria Mochnacz also photographs other musicians, but PJ Harvey is the most well-known. Here are some other artists that Maria Mochnacz has worked with, so the pictures and artist images are all similar in style. Her ideas could help me think of some ideas for our magazine cover.


Vanessa Quinones

This photo was taken in the artists flat - not a studio

Richard Ashcroft 

This was shot for Nylon magazine.

Chikinki

Mochnacz shot a video of this artist through an analogue video night vision camera. She then played the video back on her television and took a picture of the video from the tele.

Ana Da Silva

Mochnacz placed a giant piece of paper behind the artist and cut out various letters in different fonts and stuck them behind to make the photograph look like something out of a magazine. Da Silva's dress is covered in all her favourite things - that would normally be kept away in a box or mantelpiece.

So the pictures are all noticeably in black and white, which is the idea that my group and I are going for as well. Because our music video deals with memories and flash backs, black and white is an appropriate colour scheme I think. Particularly with Chikinki's grain look...we want that gritty feel.

Here is also some work of similar nature from Anna Morisi. Again the black and white pictures convey a dark attitude and the teenagers at the top right are portrayed as rebellious and very indie. I like the picture of the girl alone on the bottom right most. She looks sad and hurt, and the lack of clothing has some sexual implications. I think this could be a possible idea for an album cover photograph.

We'd probably be attracting a target audience of around 17-27 year olds, people who are more sophisticated with their music taste and have that typical grunge style about them.