Aperture - Jan Groover

Jan Groover was an American photographer born in 1943. She began as a painter but decided to pick up a camera as her tool of creativity. She made still life arrangements in her kitchen, out of everyday household utensills; knives, forks, spoons, pans etc. and shot them in a way that really exaggerated the reflections, lines and shadows that the metal objects created. 

     

I find Groover's cropped close ups really interesting and abstract. She really brings out the warm colours in the metal and i think the images almost look like abstract paintings. She used aperture and shallow depth of field for creative effect. I like her work because she managed to turn mundane objects into something quite lovely and makes me see them in a totally different way!