Shoot 7 (Project proposal)

Shoot 7

Plan

I plan to take 

Photographer research

Yuliana Mendoza

Yuliana Mendoza is a Peru born photographer who is now based in Italy. She works under the pseudonym "Silence Effects" and there is not much known about her. Her photos are edited digitally and feel calm and silent.

I was inspired by her work with flowers mostly, and how it hid the person with something beautiful. This links to my project on identity as it can connotate to covering their face because of attractiveness. I was also inspired by the second picture as it can connotate to not seeing the truth. 

Contact Sheet 

Best Images

Edited Images

Editing Process

For the first two pictures, i used the macro images and combined them together\

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The idea of my shoot was to take portrait photos of multiple people, facing different directions. I then wanted to digitally edit these photos similarly to indepenspense by Guiseppe Mistromatteo, as i was heavily inspired by his work. I wanted to edit the faces to look like they're wearing masks and for the photo with the girl's hand over her face, I wanted to edit it with some of her facial features on top of her hand.

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Future Progression

Shoot 6 (Project proposal)

Shoot 6

Plan

I plan to take portrait photography of my model with pastel backgrounds, i then plan to paint or scratch over the face.

Photographer research

Teresa Freitas

Teresa Freitas is a Portuguese photographer who works near the sea in Lisbon. She works with natural light, cloudier days have more blue/dark colours while sunny days have more pastels. She says her style was shaped by the sea she lives by.

Freitas has been inspired by many people, her father, Helena Almeida, René Magritte, René Maltête, Brassaï and Man Ray. Recently she has been doing more surrealistic work such as the photo I am inspired by. She sees surrealism as a form of challenging former perceptions of the reality that the audience expects.

I am inspired by this photo as the background and the paint are bright pastel colours but the subject is dark. The model is also in a pose as if they were looking into a mirror fixing their shirt before going out. This leads me to connotations of self-image problems which links to my project about identity.

Contact Sheet 

Best Images

Edited Images

Editing Process

For the first two pictures, i used the macro images and combined them together\

AO3

The idea of my shoot was to take portrait photos of multiple people, facing different directions. I then wanted to digitally edit these photos similarly to indepenspense by Guiseppe Mistromatteo, as i was heavily inspired by his work. I wanted to edit the faces to look like they're wearing masks and for the photo with the girl's hand over her face, I wanted to edit it with some of her facial features on top of her hand.

AO4

Future Progression

Shoot 5 (Project proposal)

Shoot 5

Plan

I plan to take 

Photographer research

Guiseppe Mastramatteo

Giuseppe Mastromatteo was born 6 August 1970. Mastromatteo is an artist, photographer and creative director in Italy. Before becoming a photographer he had a career as a sound engineer in a record company, Mastromatteo graduated from the Academy of Communication in Milan in art direction. In 2006 he established himself as a conceptual photographer, images for the opening of the new Triennale museum in Milan Bovisa. Mastromatteo has been exhibited in several art galleries, cultural institutions and museums and has participated in Italian and International art fairs. His works have been published in art books and contemporary photography magazines worldwide.

Mastromatteo works both in Milan and in New York

In 2009 Mastromatteo exhibited his best-known works, known as the Indepensense series, which is the series I am inspired by. The Indepensense series was carried out between the years of 2009 and 2012.  After Indepensense, Mastromatteo created the Homogenic series and the Eyedentikit series. Eyedentikit presents a series of portraits where the author becomes the protagonist and inserts part of himself in the reflection around human identity.

Contact Sheet 

Best Images

Edited Images

Editing Process

For the first two pictures i used the macro images and combined them together

AO3

The idea of my shoot was to take portrait photos of multiple people, facing different directions. I then wanted to digitally edit these photos similarly to indepenspense by Guiseppe Mistromatteo, as i was heavily inspired by his work. I wanted to edit the faces to look like they're wearing masks and for the photo with the girl's hand over her face, I wanted to edit it with some of her facial features on top of her hand.

AO4

Future Progression