Andy Small

Andy Small studied Fine Art at Bristol University and he became a professional Photographer in 2003, having previously spent a number of years teaching.

He specialises in taking close up images of flowers and plants/trees etc. Using his Fine Art background he intelligently uses colour to exaggerate and highlight the natural beauty of his subject matter.

Andy has become one of the UK's most original photographers of flowers and his images take on an artistic quality. It is worthy of note that his preference is to work in the studio and that all of his work is created 'in camera'.
     

I am particularly interested in the concept of taking these autumn leaves and highlighting them, to produce a very clean and detailed image against the dark backgrounds. The use of a black background gives a massive contrast to the colours in the leaves.

The colours are really exaggerated and 'clean' in these images.