Willy Vanderperre is a fashion photographer who was born in 1971 in Belgium. Vanderperre has a reoccurring theme of using slow shutter speeds and digital enhancements to create a ‘glitch’ effect in photographs and make them a lot more enigmatic than they initially were.

His techniques vary from using paint and smudging it across his photographs to blur the subject, using digital programmes to manually move parts of the photo and discolouring them to make them seem corrupt and out of place and using slow shutter speeds to get blurred figures.

His artwork relates to my project well because I am looking to create a digital theme. Glitches are digital corruptions that are temporary malfunctions in anything that is digital. Other words for glitch usually relate to ‘broken’ or ‘faulty’ and using methods like Vanderperre I want to present that our society is ‘corrupt’ for the obsession we have with technology that stops us from socialising and makes us pass by social areas without really connecting.

Vanderperre uses very bright colours that contrast his original black and white images or dull and low lit pieces. This is a great effect because it stands out and gives off a message. Vanderperre tries to get across in his images that modern day society is obsessed with technology and our generation can’t escape it.

I want to use his methods in my artwork on top of photographs of my subject using technology in a public place, in a crowd and by a train. I want the crowd and train to by blurry and contrast the still model which will eventually be edited like Vanderperre’s work.