If you guys know somebody who cuts, burns, scratches, bites, or self-mutilates in any way, let me know. With their permission, of course.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Irving Penn
For my final project, I'm started to get really nervous. Where do I photograph these people? Should the background be the same or different? What are they going to wear? Do I take them outside or stuff them in a corner? Do I photograph their body, an overall image, or zoom in on key parts? Should I continue with my mask idea? For this assignment, I'm taking inspiration from Irving Penn's pictures. Simplistic and raw. I'm just afraid that I'm not going to get this right. It's not something I can come back to this project and re-do it in a couple of years. I have to get it right NOW. I'm going to photograph my first two subjects this weekend, because I know that I can come back and re-shoot them once I'm sure about how I'm going to do it. It's all the other one-time subjects that I'm worried about. If I get it wrong, there's really nothing I can do to fix it, because their images are set in stone and I can't get back my models.
If you guys know somebody who cuts, burns, scratches, bites, or self-mutilates in any way, let me know. With their permission, of course.
If you guys know somebody who cuts, burns, scratches, bites, or self-mutilates in any way, let me know. With their permission, of course.
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I'm interested in how exactly you're planning on photographing self mutalation. Are you going to show the scars, marks, etc.... or are you going to capture them doing it. You must decide that, I think, before you begin photographing. Masks...hmmm.... I would actually rather see their face BUT I understand how that may may cause uncomfort with the subject. You could try photographing them looking down or even take the pictures from behind.
Actually, the mask is more than just a blanket for my models. It's also for a purpose-that these people are ostracised, that this is so taboo.
And I'm not photographing them doing it. Not everybody self-harms in the same way.
Make them anonymous...that way anyone can see themselves in the photograph. If they are identifiable they are somehow 'someone else' and not 'me'.
I also need to see your 'light' assignment pretty soon here ok?
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