Texts that have had a major impact on me

Photographers


Nan Goldin

Corinne Day

Cindy Sherman

Valerie Phillips

Elaine Constantine



Artists

Vanessa Beecroft

Sophie Calle

Tracey Emin

Tamara de Lempicka

Sam Taylor Wood

Tracey Moffatt

Gillian Wearing



Literature

Margaret Atwood – The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin

Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus, Love

Brett Easton Ellis – Less than Zero, Rules of Attraction, Glamorama

Scarlet Thomas – Popco, Bright Young Things,

Douglas Coupland - J-Pod, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Girlfriend in a Coma, Eleanor Rigby,

Ian McEwan – The Cement Garden, Atonement, Enduring love

F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and damned, Tender is the Night

Tama Janowitz – Slaves of New York, Peyton Amberg, A Certain Age

Rebecca Miller – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Andre Breton – Nadja

W.G. Sebald – Rings of Saturn

Carol Shields – The Stone Diaries

Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides



Magazines

I-D

The Face

Dazed and Confused



Film

Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary 2002)

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson 2001)

The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson 2007)

Rushmore (Wes Anderson 1998)

Timecode (Mike Figgis 2000)

Clubbed to Death (Yolande Zauberman 1996)

Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer 1998)

Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2001)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards 1961)

American Beauty (Sam Mendes 1999)

Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly 2001)

Juno (Jason Reitman 2007)

Go (Doug Liman 1999)

Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant 1989)

Trainspotting (Danny Boyle 1996)

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie 1998)

My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski 2004)

Atonement (Joe Wright 2007)

Lords of Dogtown (Catherine Hardwicke 2005)

Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater 1993)

Kids (Larry Clark 1995)

The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola 1999)

Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola 2003)



Plays

Neil LaBute – In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things



Music

Joy Division

Air

Daft Punk

Mylo

Massive Attack

Zero 7

The Shins

Depeche Mode

Sia

Editors

New Order

Beloved

Soul II Soul

Stone Roses

Cocteau Twins

P J Harvey

Leftfield

Groove Armada

Primal Scream

Stars

Goldfrapp

Blondie

The Future Sound of London

Bent



Festivals

The Big Chill Eastnor castle

The Garden Festival Zadar Croatia