After the last shooting, I also told with my tutors about my confusions and failures, they gave me some useful suggestions and advises, encouraging me not to give up, just keep trying. As my story telling of myself, me in the image is part of the object, the main object as well. So I should see myself as a piece of art, and as the artist to create this art I should take photography by myself! I am the person who knows this object best and I am the best person to represent myself, my own story! Then everything starts to make sense.
Paolo Emanuele
Photographer
Then I found Paolo's photography works are inspiring me. I love the emotions from his works. I could feel the loneliness, the isolated, the struggle. I also like the way how he represent the photography, I tried to do the same thing as him, transfer the images to other surfaces. He used tape, scrap paper, paint marks. I don't know the effect is made by actual materials or photoshop, however, both way, they are looking good, especially the red mark, makes the image looks powerful.
Here you go, after all these trying and trying, finally I got what I feel happy with.
I put myself back to my house which the most comfortable location for me to be me. And there are two stories that I am telling.
So for the first row I am trying to tell about body shame of women, it doesn't matter how thin we are, we always thing we are not good enough, our bodies not perfect enough, even for myself. At the last shoot, I create a scene that I am smashing the weight scale with a screaming or angry expression, the audience can hear anything because it's a photography, but I think they could feel the screaming.
In the second row, I am telling another story, also about female, but more about struggling emotions. The first image, I cut my nails, represent I am preparing, but for what? Date? Going out? The the second one I am trying different heels on, also don't know what I am preparing to. Then the last image, I just clean the floor with a messy hair but two different heels! What's the story I want to tell here is, women should dress up or take care of ourselves for ourselves, but no body else. I could just wear something to impress ourselves, even we do nothing. That exactly what I always do, I wear my favourite dress and heels, put makeup on then I do nothing, just stay at home enjoy myself. And I think at this point the story been told very well.
As you can see, about the represent of the photography, inspired by Paolo, the main images are mono and I added red brush marks to make contrast, and I think it works very well. The only thing is the effect showing now is by digital, should I make the effect by physical way? Emulsion print and actual painting afterword?
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