Phoebe Jacob
Contact:: psljacob2002@gmail.com
University/School: Leeds Arts University
Location: Leeds
About me
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Photographer, Art Director and Production Designer
I am a photographer working at the intersection of art and fashion, creating performative and visually striking work. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of art forms and lived experiences, my concepts often explore the surreal while remaining rooted in personal narrative.
I work with prop and set design to build immersive visual worlds, always with a focus on the photographic outcome. Colour, light, and shadow play a central role in my practice — not just as tools, but as expressive elements that abstract, frame, and elevate my imagery.
Inspiration
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AND BLUE explores childhood imagination and experience.
My final major project, titled "And Blue", explores the experience, design, and abstraction of childhood through a series of conceptual fashion editorials. The project investigates how childhood imagination, naivety, and design elements can be reinterpreted through an adult gaze, using light, shadow, and colour as compositional tools. The aim is to bridge the gap between nostalgic memory and refined visual storytelling
Drawing inspiration from the visual language of childhood design — including Bauhaus principles, Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, and Alexander Calder’s mobiles — I explored how playfulness and abstraction can shape visual storytelling. By experimenting with lighting techniques and reimagining toys as unconventional tools for casting light, colour, and shadow. The result is a body of work that balances depth and naivety.
My work
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My work _____
Detail
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“What wonderful shapes in my childhood days, of curves and lines like a geometrical maze, all coloured my delight in various hues, of orange and violet and purple and blue”
