These three portraits were taken of each subject watching the same video. Here we are able to compare how they react too the gruesome clip they were viewing.
In this project “Relevant Reactions” I was investigating the way different people react to varying types of short films. I took the videos shown to the subjects off the web site YouTube, focusing on the clips that had the most viewings. In this piece I was aiming to discover if the way people react shows something about their personality. For each subject I showed them the same four videos and took photographs at set times, relative to actions occuring in each film. I took these images in a Daylight Studio using a Hasselblad.
In this editorial shoot i wanted to expand my studio knowledge. I designed this spiderlike shoot, trying to express the ties for modern women. By using sultry makeup i was aiming to show a beautiful woman but with a querky twist: using a model with short red hair. This image expresses the difficulty for women to show thier inner emotions without being tangled up and judged on face value. It is trying to question if a woman has to dress down to be taken seriously and be more free to persue what they want in thier career. I used a digital Hasselblad to Shoot individual portraits, then i digitally composed them together using Adobe Photoshop.
Taking inspiration from the photographer Stephen Gill, I placed the photograms of my found objects, partially over the faces of my collected portraits to create a narrative. This combination gives the impression of loss and possibly the idea that the subject has been injured.
These images show the accidental patterns and coloured sturctures made by the sometimes everyday actions that women take. It shows the natural abstract beauty that is created when we remove our temporary masks that make us feel and read as the conventional “pretty woman”. This is a bizarre idea that by removing this cover and revealing our true selves, in the process we create something that is perminant and exquisite.
These images are a series from the “Discarded Objects” project. They show old photographs that have been collected and merged with a photogram of a used makeup wipe I kept. They have a delicate, textured feel and exude the narrative of being lost in a fire and found in the ashes many years later.
This project looks at collections of discarded objects, either by nature or humans. These images are aimed to show people the beauty in the things we forget. Within this project I used Jochim Schmids idea of “There are too many photographs in the world already” so i created the images without the use of a camera. These are a selection of photograms from this project.
