Obviously my passion is portraiture so I'm carrying on with sticking with this genre but putting a spin on the images from traditional portraiture. Producing creative portraits by using mirrors and reflections to distort the portrait. My idea for this follows on from my idea for the end of year show, exploring hidden identity, broken personalities, masking your true self from the world. As you get older you can see more clearly people around you behaving in this way. So by creating portraits to reflect this the viewer will get the narrative behind it, you can start questioning why is she broken, or masking herself? What made her like this? For this day in age the problem is social media, they get so engrossed in what other people have, look like, who they go out with, where they live etc. That they start trying to compete and live a lifestyle as others do. This in turn creates a monster inside them a paranoid, self conscious, doubtful, anxious person, who hides that away and puts on a mask for everyone to see. While really no one will ever know the true identity of certain individuals.
LAWRENCE SUMULONG
Lawrence Sumulong portraits are really simple yet quite effective and relates to what narrative is behind my idea. His images are concealing or obscuring the portrait which goes in hand in what I explaining above, his images are like double exposures but done in camera with reflections and textured glass. For my own images I may try textured glass, water and broken mirrors to create the same effect.
Giacomo Brunelli:
http://www.giacomobrunelli.com/works.php 29.04.16
Brunelli's images have harsh contrast, he chooses black & white which gives the images an added air of mystery only seeing the shadows of the environment, animals or people. He focuses on parts of the image and does this by using light to his advantage. I am wanting my images to be black and white too, I think black and white adds to the atmosphere of the image. His images could give the same context as I am putting to my images, the shadows hide the identity. In the images you don't fully see who or what the portrait is of his maximises this in the use of his lighting and contrast. Black and white also lets you focus on the details of the image and lets you take in the whole image, if the above images were in colour I don't think they would of been as effective as they are in black and white.
Looking on the internet for some more inspirational images to help progress my own idea and thoughts on images. Incorporating water with images can give a nice abstract portrait, with the collection of artists and images I'm going to try and create my own portraits. Combining some of the elements I'm excited to try out my own technique to create some abstract portraits.
Looking on the internet for some more inspirational images to help progress my own idea and thoughts on images. Incorporating water with images can give a nice abstract portrait, with the collection of artists and images I'm going to try and create my own portraits. Combining some of the elements I'm excited to try out my own technique to create some abstract portraits.
