My Fourth and Final Artist

I have decided to change artist. I was recommended to look at Jane Brown by my teacher, and I much preferred her work to that of Alyssa Oliver.

Brown was an English photographer who worked for The Observer newspaper from 1949. Her portraits primarily photographed using natural, available light and are often black and white.
Since her death she has been referred to as "a kind of English Cartier-Bresson" by Lord Snowdon, claiming she "produced photography at its best. She doesn't rely on tricks or gimmicks, just simple, honest recording, but with a shrewd and intellectual eye."

Here is some of her work:

Samuel Beckett by Jane Brown, 1976

John Lennon by Jane Brown, 1967

The reason I have switched to Brown's work is because I feel I could benefit from her photographic style more than Oliver's. This is because for the next shoot, I was planning on taking a photo in the dark, where the only source of light my camera would be able to pick up on was from a candle. Like Brown's work, I wasn't going to use any fancy studio lights nor was I using any form of artificial lighting.
The harsh natural lighting seen on Lennon and Beckett's faces above is something I would like to be present in my next shoot for Scotophobia, the fear of darkness. I feel the harsh lighting will give the image some edge.