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| Photography: Kat Teutsch |
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| Photography: Kat Teutsch |
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| Photography: Kat Teutsch |
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| Photography: Kat Teutsch |
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| Photography: Kat Teutsch |
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| Photography: Kat Teutsch |
In our continuing series of narrative stories based and inspired by New York women, Photographer Kat Teutsch and I got together a couple of weekends ago and shot the next in our batch. This time Goldie Rose Smyth was born. These shoots are produced as a result of meeting or observing from afar the array of characters here, Constantly I am inspired by just a glimpse of someone on the street who you know has a long story to tell. New York is famous for it's eccentric personalities and thankfully the city is still full of them!
Here is Goldie Rose's story, It went like this:
Goldie Rose Smyth, born August 23rd 1946
Goldie Rose grew up in Sunnyvale, Texas, in the 1970’s she moved
to Queens, NY, moving to Long Island City. Born and bred American, Goldie
quickly got employed in Manhattan as a Secretary for a very
busy Law Firm. She was had a solid chiseled kind of beauty and in her day her
look was all cats eyes and larger than life brassy hair. A look she still
keeps.
She’s not much of a traveler but has collected mementos from her
vacations, largely spent in Florida or Mexico, Still Single, In her late 60’s
now, Goldie Rose is largely retired but still pulls in a bit of Book Keeping
from home from her old boss’s son, Gary. She usually sticks to an all fruit
diet to keep her weight down but can’t resist feeding her leftover office
addiction of donuts. Since 1979 Goldie Rose has smoked her first pipe, swapping
her Menthols for her signature orange pipe. One thing not many people know is
Goldie Rose is also a champion roller skater and still likes to skate in
Central Park on Sundays when the weather is good.
It's really fun to get into the mind of an imaginary person, Maybe it's a bit eccentric of me? I do know however Kat and I get a kick out of having a narrative to work from and the possibilities are endless, Watch out for some more of our ladies!
Thanks to again Prop Workshop for helping us with the wonderful backgrounds and some props at a generous discount.
LOVE! The colours, the armadillo, the offbeat details... it all works together so brilliantly! "Goldie" reminds me a bit of my crazy, fab grandmother, who grew up in country Bega but lived all over the world, sailed up the Amazon, looked like Diana Dors had a beach house near Palm Beach (Sydney) and wore Miami poolside style muumuus! But her colours were white and bamboo + kelly green (with over-long, perfectly manicured coral nails at all times!) Sadly, she died a few years ago, but thank you for the memories!
ReplyDeleteYou are tops sweet Kirsty! We all had crazy fab Grandmothers, Thank Goodness!! : )) XXX to Japan! M.
ReplyDeleteGosh, these are absolutely brilliant! It's hard to be fresh and exciting on the saturated internet but you've done it!!! Can't wait for more.
ReplyDeleteThese are absolutely incredible! It's hard to choose a favorite part, but I think what I love the most is how well developed the characters are. You thought of everything and even kept their "looks" the same as they aged. I'm fascinated by this because I find that the people with the most character seem to change their looks (hair, makeup) the least. So, so well done!
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