"Flowers" by Irving Penn

Irving Penn has been a massive inspiration to me as to how I plan to photograph rubbish, and items that are considered to be rubbish by one person but mean the world to someone else. Irving Penn created a series of dead flowers for the Vogue 1967 USA Christmas edition, and then produced a book titled Flowers in 1980, with many different smaller series titled by their floral names

I feel that when I am photographing people and their collections of items, as well as rubbish that they keep, that Irving Penn will be a massive inspiration due to the clean and beautiful way he photographs them.