Shoot 6
Plan
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.
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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
