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Photoshop Editing

For this collection of edits I wanted to ‘enhance’ the images to a more socially accepted ideal of beauty.

The images themselves where highly planned. I used bright lighting to emphasise features and angled the lighting to put shadows on areas that are stereotypically ugly e.g. double chin. I used full coverage foundation to cover my spots/acne scars, makeup pigments to contour or highlight particular areas of the face, red lipstick to emphasise the lips and create the illusion of a fuller lip. I created volume to my hair, added accessories and chose an outfit that looks put together.

Original Image
Colour Enhanced Edit
Original Image

The original images was flattering before I even started to edit them, due to the preparation I put into them. For the extreme edit I went on to adapt the image in a way that people on social media portray themselves to others. I completely changed the shape of my face and removed all ‘impurities’, yet when view the image alone you wouldn’t necessarily know the extreme adaptations I made.

Personally, I wouldn’t upload this extreme edited picture to my social medias but plenty of people would. I have felt this pressure and my current social media posts are edited with coloured filters to enhance the original images.

Having viewed the original next to the edited version I can see what makes the second more ‘beautiful’, and it’s no surprise people feel the need to edit their pictures to fit in with the collection of highly edited photos that are already on social media.

Photoshop Adaptations

It’s no wonder more and more people have lower self-esteems when people feel they should have to be this expectation of modern beauty which in reality is extremely fake.

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Portrait Contrasts

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Mundane Everyday

I started with these two video experiments where I explored an exterior and interior journey. I think the merging of the two created an intriguing juxtaposition. I went on to develop these ideas further …

I wanted to create a video reflecting the mundane tasks of everyday life, focusing on emotions that form during this time.

Something as simple a making a cup of coffee allows the mind to focus on the details we are observing without paying much attention to it.

External imagery may be viewed from a window, internal possessions or the various imagery we concur up in daydreams.

Themes of love and death are part of life and often occur when you least expect it so I wanted to express this through my image choices.

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Script for Audio

When exploring the mundane tasks of everyday life, the eye is drawn to particular anomalies that share our surroundings.

Whether that’s a fat slobbery dog, beautiful pink flowers or the damaged self worth we view in the mirror.

  • Could use multiple voices for individual lines to emphasise relative emotions connected to the sound of the voice. This could also create another dimension to the quivered disruption I want to achieve.
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Blossom Photography

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Heather Phillipson

I love these too video pieces of hers in particular; 100% OTHER FIBRES [part 1] https://vimeo.com/165863107 and TRUE TO SIZE, part 2: FIRE https://vimeo.com/176623416

References:
https://www.heatherphillipson.co.uk/

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Daido Moriyama

Memory
2012

Memory 2012 Daido Moriyama born 1938 Presented by the artist 2013 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P13328
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Nobuyoshi Araki

Tokyo Still Life (2001) IKON Gallery

Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan’s most influential and prolific photographers. This exhibition presented a new selection from the vast range of work he has been making since the 1960s. In addition to his controversial erotic photographs, it also included still lifes, urban landscapes and other portraits, in order to exemplify universal themes of sensuality and mortality through distinctly Japanese subject matter.

Exhibition Summary
From Erotos 1993

I like the way this artist reflects elements of life that happen in general without focusing on the sexual content that critics focus upon.

References:
https://www.ikon-gallery.org/event/tokyo-still-life/

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Self Portrait Experiments

`I produced these series of images in hopes to pair them with a more flattering version of myself which I would more comfortably share with other people. I chose to focus/incorporate the areas of myself which are someone unpleasing to view for the large majority of society or insecurities of mine (self-harm scars, tattoos, nipple impressions, visible labia lines, belly, acne etc). I wanted to do this to emphasise the reality of how I look when I know no one is viewing/judging me. This is how I am most comfortable in my self as I don’t have to fear how people will perceive me, I plan to contrast a variation of this image with a perception of my self which I am comfortable for others to view me.

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Portrait Experiments

For this experiment I took a photo of my mum asking her to smile, I then took the second when I told her to be silly. I wanted to do this to show the contrast in behaviours we share with particular close relatives and images in which are more likely to be shared online.

I then went on to capture images of my cat playing with a feather, focusing on how to capture relatively precise images whilst in motion.