Red Balloons

Many of you may know about my red balloon project entitled 99 Red Balloons after the song  of the same title. I came up with the concept after hearing the song while editing photos. I was further inspired to do this project after discovering the french film Le Ballon Rouge. 

The project features models in various settings and styles with red balloons. It's a very simplistic, playful, and artistic project.  In completion the project will have 99 images of models with balloons. For the first stage of the project I'm planning to start with 33 models and use 3 images of each model. Following the completion of this stage of the project I will showcase the images in gallery showings. Eventually I plan to expand the project to include 99 models and then showcase one photograph of each model, and take that series to gallery showings.

Currently I have worked with 10 models on this project since starting it this past summer. In the next month I hope to add 3 more models to this project, putting me just past a 1/3 of the way completed for the first stage of the project. Above you'll see a preview of the work I've done so far. You can view more samples on my facebook page.


Enjoy and have a happy Thanksgiving.


-Ben