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Debbie Prowse Photography at the Service of Industrial Development

(Debbie Prowse) a photographer of a distinguished type who abandoned black and white completely and favored color images by virtue of her direction, which is not limited to displaying the image, but rather transforming it into a design that contributes to the textile industries, and this is what made her settle at
Her photography is both a hobby and a profession

The work of this photographer gains its importance not only from the aesthetic value of the colored image that she produces, but also from the transformation of her images into new textile designs that will be widely used in the manufacture of fabrics or even wallpaper in a later period.

Debbie Prause uses very ordinary and simple types of fabric to transform them into works of great beauty and splendor, as she uses wrinkled pleats to achieve additional depth, old curtains for lamps, or the remains of torn wallpaper or some solid materials, so she inserts them into her game, but whatever the sources and types of these materials are, she remains a skill ( Debbie Prowse) as a photographer is instrumental in her ability to transform these materials into aesthetically pleasing and worthwhile photographs in the field of textile designs.

Debbie, who is currently lecturing for one day a week at Oxford Polytechnic, was one of the first prejudices against color photography, but now that has been reflected so that she has become so passionate about color photography that she works with her to push this field to new fields, and to remove all prejudices that underestimate it and limit its use In the field of advertising and decoration works.

On this matter, Debbie says during the founding years of the South End School for Art, the black room was a natural extension of our classroom, and we had only black and white facilities at that time. Covering operations or lithographs, and I did not begin to take color photographs seriously until during my third year at the Polytechnic Academy, when I began my studies to obtain a degree in photography, and that was under the influence of my teacher, Jean Tervay, who made me limit my work to color and completely side to color photography. As for how photography turned from just an artistic desire to a profession from which she lives, Debbie says that it happened by chance at a time when flowers took up a large part of her photographic work, for which she sometimes used cloth backgrounds to create new content for the image, but the idea of ​​making a new textile design It happened while she was trying to make up her mind about the main topic for her college graduation six.
Debbie explains further by saying:
At that time, I used to spend long hours roaming the neighboring villages and small towns, shooting one film after another, hoping to discover a special topic, and I happened to enter an old house undergoing renovation, so my attention immediately focused on the walls that used to be. Half peeled, leaving layers of wallpaper accumulated and hanging to the bottom of the upper layers. They were removed, but left behind traces of their drawings. I was amazed by the mixing of the different designs and the effect of the sun's rays through them. I spent a few days playing around with these items with additions to them from discarded materials I found around. These materials themselves would have been dull and tasteless if you had taken them as isolated and individual elements - but, with their use as units of light measurement for the reflection and transmission of solar rays, they mixed, giving rise to a range of color harmonies and shapes that could be captured with beautiful impressions on color film and since then became Sunlight or natural light

One of Debbie's works, but how did her idea turn into a means of textile design? Here she says - when I gained mastery over the style, my concept of photography changed, and the images that I achieved by chance in the past became a goal that I follow in the present, and I began experimenting with abstract shots and working gradually I have to hide the realism of photography to some extent, and so the flowers, along with the canvas, remained the main part of the contents of my pictures, but they were softened and simplified to turn into a part of a holistic concept instead of being individual elements that dominate the entire space of the picture.

Now, Debbie has begun to avoid the primary colors that she used in her early works, and now uses transparent or semi-transparent materials close to the camera lens, as these materials act as filters that redefine or soften the color, as for the issue of pre-planning and its role in the success of her shots.
Debbie says - I cannot imagine the shot in advance, so I rarely plan my works and my starting point is always a piece of cloth that I like and maybe a flower for contrast. I go outside and start experimenting, always using the viewfinder until I find what I want, and this is what forces me sometimes to work for an hour, as this role of creative work continues during one or more Debbie prints to take one picture, and because the last stage, which is no less important than the others, is the stage of entering the black room. For her business, she often invests
Incorrect color balance to achieve distinctive final results, and because she did not have a dark room, she recently obtained a gift from the London Art Chancellery to help her create her own room. What is noticeable in Debbie’s works as a whole is the fondness for the square structure, as she cuts the negatives - her films always consider that working with the image is a square shape when printing, because the square is much easier, as its harmonious structure allows a balance in colors and shapes with more creativity. As for devices, we find it inside the frame.
Many of Debbie's photographs were taken on 126-inch film, as she often uses a Minolta (SRT-100X), but her favorite camera is the Yashica (TLR). Here I took a Yashica camera with a tripod.

As for her latest projects, Debbie Prowse says:

At the present time, I am working as a freelance photographer to accomplish tasks assigned to me by the Designers Syndicate, which works in the field of designing wallpaper, textiles, and furnishings. In the near future, I will be working on an exhibition in (Wapping Gallery).