For this topic, I chose to look at how comfortable we are with placing ourselves within a space. I wanted to look at our confidence in the taking of space, how we command our space, and being comfortable in our own skin. With ourselves.
The best way I could find to do this was through use of body language and framing. The first image is displacement, and the second is placement. The displacement image is more of how I would represent myself, and was much easier for me to create - the pose, composition, and lighting came to me much more naturally than with the second, and I never had doubts about posing for it myself. The image is also not really altered in photoshop - just cropped and black and whited. I am not comfortable with taking space, existing in it. I would rather be at the edges, partially unseen. There, but only just.
In the placement image, I am (trying) to look more commanding in the space, to take it and make it mine. It's interesting to note, that I found something out whilst taking these photos. I'm not confident about looking confident, but I am confident looking not confident. (Strange). Anyway, this photo is meant to show the opposite of the first, that the subject is strong and in control. To me though, it's also distant and alienating where the first is not. My original intention was that the cloth would be used to cover my body because it takes away the "vulnerability" of bare skin in the first photograph.
These actually took an interesting twist to me, because what I see now is that in the first photograph, I am comfortable. Enough so to not cover myself at all, enough to not photoshop it and change anything. I command the space, admittedly not in a traditional way, but in my own way, I am. It's actually in the second image that I'm out of place.
I've only just realised that now, so it's all not very articulate in my head, and it's super late so I'm 99% sure none of this post makes any sense. Just... Look at the photos and make up your own mind.
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