Alison Jackson

Alison Jackson's work has been relevant for some time, both in the art world and in popular culture. Her work embodies the cult of celebrity as well as the bombardment of imagery in the media. Jackson makes work using people and actors who look like celebrities, politicians and other people in the public eye otherwise known as lookalikes. She creates images and scenes with the lookalikes that we've all imagined but the paparazzi have never managed to capture such as the Queen on the toilet or Tony Blair in a sex shop.
Jackson also questions the truth of the image and how we cannot believe all that is printed in the press. There is also an element of voyeurism in most of Alison's work as she recreates the blurry effect you get from a zoom lens and the obstacles that may get in the way of the perfect shot.

Her website is jam packed with work and is constantly being updated to reflect the constant churning out of celebrity images both online and in print. 

I think her website will be the main inspiration for my magazine cover as it's not too in in-the-face and subtle but still has the same feeling I get from Hello magazine.com or any other celeb websites.