Dan Annett is a British photographer and director that is based predominantly in London. He studied photography, film and media to secure his future job to work as a resident photographer and as a deputy picture editor for magazines such as cult magazine in the late nineties. He assisted leading fashion, portrait, interior photography and still life shoots such as the one below.

The photograph above is a still life minimalism piece photographed by Dan Annett in a studio setting. In order to create this photograph Annett spray-painted the objects besides the white notepad to be the same colour as the background.  This is to make the photograph as subtle as possible while creating a bold coloured look. In order to do this Annett has used studio lighting to create as much light as possible to display the mint green as bright as possible without reducing the boldness of the colour. He also used an ISO of 400 to help to display the green as light as possible and had a wide depth of field in order to make each object perfectly clear throughout the photograph. The use of one differently shaded object creates a focal point for the photograph which creates a starting point for a viewer to observe the photograph. This is so that the others objects in the photograph are slowly discovered and it creates an element of surprise that the viewer did not originally notice what the object was due to its identity of its colour being taken away.

Due to my theme being colour, and my focus being largely on minimalism and subtlety within colour photographs I have decided to base my final piece around the work of Dan Annett. Therefore, I will create a selection of images that highlight different colours with everyday objects like Annett does in a high key studio setting to highlight that colour photography does not always have to be multi coloured and therefore can be subtle and all the same colour to make the viewer come up with their own interpretation of the work.