Back in August I mentioned that Mat from Southern Retro had paid us a visit in Norwich.
Well, now the results of that visit are all visible on the Southern Retro website. Southern Retro is an amazing photographic project of “individuals for whom reviving the past is part of their every day lives”.
They’re not pin-up shots or themed photo shoots. Just simple portraits of people in their everyday clothes, or at least a slightly more glamorous version of their everyday clothes! The portraits are taken in their own homes and are accompanied by a paragraph about them that Mat puts together from a short questionnaire.
So here’s the final result of mine!
There are 5 photos in total on the site. So if you’d like to see more you can visit my page on Southern Retro.
Of course, poor old Mat didn’t come all the way from the South coast just to take photos of me. There were 5 other people in Norwich who are now part of the Southern Retro project, taking the total tally up 22 portraits now on the site.
So let me introduce you to the others…
Lucy is a beauty historian and writes vintage beauty blog The Glamourologist
Kerry writes vintage lifestyle blog Missy Vintage
Karen is a fashion stylist with a penchant for vintage and has recently set up vintage events company Blue Skies Vintage Events with her husband Graham.
Amy is a vintage hair stylist who trained at Nina’s in London and now works in Norwich as Flamingo Amy.
Do check out the Southern Retro site, and if you’d like to be part of the project drop Mat a line. He’s always looking for new subjects to document and he’s really very nice and not scary at all!
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7 responses to “Southern Retro”
Those photos are beautiful! I love how the project takes vintage living folk as they are and doesn’t try and set them up in a ‘scene’ – gives the images a much stronger sense of reality.
I saw the site recently – you all look great! They are fantastic portraits, glamorous but still clearly of the ‘real person’ in their daily life.
Ahh – ain’t he lovely 🙂 Looking fabbaluss in your delish green shirt!
The photo of you is lovely, as are the others. What a fun project to be involved in! I like the ‘real’ focus of it. 🙂
Terrific feature!! 🙂
Superb hair!! I’m glad that it’s not one of those ‘try hard’ projects where everything is done to extreme or not done at all. x
What a fabulous idea – The images look fantastic!