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David and Luke Edmonson A Family Affair - part 3 of 1 2 3 4 5 6

Published 01/10/2015

Violinist
Luke: 'There's a certain irony in this picture. It was entered intoa print competition and one of the judges commented thatthe curtains were not symmetrical. Of course we all know thatsymmetry can be very important in art, but my Dad had to sweetlyremind the judge that the image was based on Vermeer, who usedlots of asymmetrical elements in his compositions!'

David: 'This was a portrait created for the woman's husband. Wephotographed her in her wedding dress, and it worked becausetraditionally people didn't have special wedding dresses that werewhite, they just wore the nicest dress that they owned.

'She's playing the violin as an expression of love for her husband,but she doesn't need music on the stand because it's a song thatis already memorised in her heart. There are books included in thepicture because she's well-educated and sculptures because sheloves fine art. We basically created the music practice room thatshe would always loved to have had. It's a single exposure again,it's not composited together from several shots.'

Four Sisters
Luke: 'This shot is called Sisters, and it was actually shot over in Oxford, England, at a place called Cowley Manor. It's a very personal imagefor us.

David: 'Yes, this was an image that I always wanted to do; I wanted to capture my three daughters together in their youth. We were goingto England for one of my daughters' wedding, so I'd gone out and brought some antique parasols which again are part of that wholePride and Prejudice feel. I also found a 100-year-old version of the novel and brought that with me too, as well as all of the outfits! It onlytook perhaps five minutes to shoot that image, but it was the second to last photo that I took of my daughter before she passed away, soit has come priceless to me.'

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