Bodies.
What stories do bodies tell? What is your body telling you? What is it telling others? What does your body say about you in particular? What can bodies say in general about culture, gender, history, power politics? Do you have a personal interest in any of these topics, if so can you make images about this? Do you want to try creating some self-portraits? How would you make self-portraits by photographing someone else's body? One way or another, spend the coming days making images that somehow reflect your interest and ideas about images of the body.
What stories do bodies tell? What is your body telling you? What is it telling others? What does your body say about you in particular? What can bodies say in general about culture, gender, history, power politics? Do you have a personal interest in any of these topics, if so can you make images about this? Do you want to try creating some self-portraits? How would you make self-portraits by photographing someone else's body? One way or another, spend the coming days making images that somehow reflect your interest and ideas about images of the body.
1. Beautiful body and light, desired elegance in societal standards.
2. Same body but the brokenness it suffers.
3. Beautiful hand casted by shadows but jewelry-ed up.
4. Same hand but scarred.
5. One body, two views. Mirror body is muscular and desired. Real body has stretch marks and shows the journey taken to achieve the mirror body.
I chose these images because they contrast a beautiful ideal with a reality of perceived ugliness. Accepting my body has been a long struggle for me. I loved using photography as my art and way to express myself and help me as an outlet to speak out in other ways I can not. I usually make self-portraits but I tried to add in a picture of someone else as my way of showing my self-portraits through photographing someone else. This was interesting and different but I believe my message still gets across.
2. Same body but the brokenness it suffers.
3. Beautiful hand casted by shadows but jewelry-ed up.
4. Same hand but scarred.
5. One body, two views. Mirror body is muscular and desired. Real body has stretch marks and shows the journey taken to achieve the mirror body.
I chose these images because they contrast a beautiful ideal with a reality of perceived ugliness. Accepting my body has been a long struggle for me. I loved using photography as my art and way to express myself and help me as an outlet to speak out in other ways I can not. I usually make self-portraits but I tried to add in a picture of someone else as my way of showing my self-portraits through photographing someone else. This was interesting and different but I believe my message still gets across.