Otilee is Propel Arts featured artist for this month - read her interview here.

Otilee is Propel Arts featured artist for this month - read her interview here.

2009 International Photography Awards Announces Winners of the Competition
International Photography Awards (IPA) has announced the winners of 2009’s competition. Otilee Lamb at Forks was awarded: Honorable Mention in Advertising - Beauty category for the winning entry “Empress” and Honorable Mention in Advertising - Fashion category for the winning entry series “Eat horses and grow BIG!”.
See entries here: http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/hmentionNON.php
Empress

Eat Horses and Grow BIG!

ABOUT IPA:
The 2009 International Photography Awards received nearly 18,000 submissions from 104 countries across the globe. IPA is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation, where the top three winners are announced at the annual Lucie Awards gala ceremony. The Foundation’s mission is to honor master photographers, to discover new and emerging talent and to promote the appreciation of photography. Since 2003, IPA has had the privilege and opportunity to acknowledge and recognize contemporary photographer’s accomplishments in this specialized and highly visible competition. Visit www.photoawards.com
Over the past couple of months in addition to Prelude 09, Forks has been working on a massive branding / publication design and photography project ‘a touch of wool II’ for the Perth Fashion Festival 09.
‘a touch of wool II’ is a fantastic joint initiative by the Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) and Curtin University. A project which aims to help change the perception of wool in fashion by merging science with design through the amazing work of eight emerging fashion designers using innovative and creative production technology to produce eight separate couture collections showcasing versatility of wool.
The concept for the branding of the project and the publication design was to reinforce the concept of the project itself in changing the perception of wool in fashion by steering away from the ‘wool agriculture promotional brochure’ type look and presenting the project more as a high fashion glossy editorial. Also taking on the project photography, carrying on with the high fashion editorial vibe - each shoot was individual art directed to reflect and reinforce the image for each designers collection. All eight collections were shot in a two week time frame, with an fantastic team of voluntary models and makeup artists along with the designers themselves.
Keep any eye out in the gallery for the project photography and publication design in the coming week!
The ‘a touch of wool II’ event for fashion week is a FREE to the public catwalk show in Fashion Central, Forrest Chase in the City (Perth, WA) on Tuesday 8th Sept at 3pm - head down to check out the 8 collections from some amazing local fashion design talent!

Recently producing branding and graphic design work for annual exhibition of contempory fashion, textiles and photography. Also featuring photography by Otilee.
Exhibition runs from Friday 4th Sept - Sunday 6th Sept
Open Daily 10am - 5pm | 12pm -4pm Sunday
212 William Street, Northbridge, Perth WA
Entry: FREE

Extremely pleased and excited to announce that Otilee at Forks has just been notified that she is a finalist in the Photographer’s Forum 29th Annual Spring Photography contest and will be published in hardcover publication ‘Best of Photography 2009′, with the book available for purchase this December.
The selected image (below), was part of the ‘In a darkened room’ series, shot October last year.

Art direction | Styling | Photography | Edit: Otilee, Makeup | Hair: Lily Webb (Beauty Contour), Model: Christiane Krapf