Nick Veasey X-ray photographer

Nick Veasey uses x-rays to take photographs and his work is like nothing else, the way he describes the ideas behind his work is a cliche we here alot but he has put his ideas into a working practice, he says "we live in a world obsessed with image. what we look like what our clothes look like, houses, cars... i like to counter this superficial appearence by stripping back the layers and showing what it is like under the surface" and while this sounds like the plot to a hollywood movie his work truly shows the inner beauty in anything the idea that there is so much more to be seen thatn what is on the outside is obvious but when you actually see the results of his work it is quite impressive to see what is actually there and how the inticity of of a flower or an insect, one of the things that i think looks particularly cool is an x-ray of a shirt which looks really nice with the all of the thread patterns and the way the creases in the materials are emphasised and its not just how it looks, the idea of x-raying a shirt is something i thought wasnt really possible so i decided to find out exactly how he creates these x-ray photos, and the way he does it is so much more that pointing a camera and shooting.

First of all he doesnt have a normal studio, he has a solid structure built in the middle of no where that to people just looks like a big black box, but it is actually specially constructed to hold in the radiation from the x-ray machines, the most incredable thing about his work is that all his photographs are life size becasue of the way that they are taken, subjects are placed against a lead floor with shets of film placed behind them in front of x-ray head units, he then goes outside his studio to where the controls for the x-ray machines are and he then sets the exposure settings depending on the subject and once this is set the head units send x-rays through the subjects which then leaves an image on a film strips.