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The Vogue photographer who never let his models stand still: Neil Kirk spent decades capturing supermodels mid-stride, mid-leap and mid-laugh
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The pictures of self-taught British photographer Neil Kirk (1946-2022), gathered for the first time in Neil Kirk in Vogue: The Supermodel Years, do something different almost every time.
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British Vogue, October 1996 (Image credit: Neil Kirk, by kind permission of Condé Nast)British Vogue, July 1987 (Image credit: Neil Kirk, by kind permission of Condé Nast)Archival Polaroid, 1980s (Image credit: Neil Kirk, by kind permission of Condé Nast)There's a picture in the book of a couple caught mid-stride, with both sets of feet airborne and expressions still composed rather than strained.
British Vogue, August 1987 (Image credit: Neil Kirk, by kind permission of Condé Nast)British Vogue, January 1990 (Image credit: Neil Kirk, by kind permission of Condé Nast)That's largely down to instruction rather than luck; coaxing real reactions out of models who know exactly what they're being asked to perform.
Neil Kirk in Vogue: The Supermodel Years is published by ACC Art Books.