cindy sherman is a female photographer and movie director from america, she has done a wide variety of work but my two favourtite series are her self/portraits which she shot in black and white in new york city and her most recent fairy tale based work in which she shot colour pictures of well known fairy tales and stories :) she used to be a painter at college but soon found herself limited by the medium so she shortly decided to take up photography due to the expansive capabilities of a camera and how instead of spending her college years copying other stlyes and pictures with her paints she would rather pick up a camera and place all her focus onto an idea of her own and really perfect the art and create her own style. most of shermans work is done in a studio and she likes to work by herself for more concentration and acts as her own stylist, make up artist, art director and assistant. she insists that a photograph is made from the model, and tat a story can never be told from a background, or lighting but only from the deep emotion in a persons face.