Photoshoot One: For this photo shoot I am wanting to respond to the work of Liz Steketee . I am going to be using photographs that I found from when I was younger and manipulate them in the style of Liz Steketee. For this, I will be adapting different techniques like the ones she has used to give a new meaning and truth to my photographs. I will be using sewing techniques to deface some of the subjects included in some of my photographs. I will also be adding faces / parts of different faces to other faces, to create completely new people and / or faces. I will also be scribbling on top of some of my photographs as well as writing words or phrases that represent my feelings towards my situation or my feelings towards a certain event.
These photographs are some from the work of Liz Steketee that I will be looking at when creating my own responses and photographs as inspiration.
Photoshoot Two: For this photo shoot I will be looking at the work of John Stezaker and going to be responding to his work with my own photographs. I am going to be looking for any portraits that I can find in my archive of old photographs, and will be doing the same style of manipulation as Stezaker does as his own main body of work. I will mostly be doing this in photoshop, however, I think I will experiment with trying to print out some of my own photographs again and try to fold them to create new faces. I can see from Stezaker’s work that more often than not, he creates his new faces either diagonally or straight across in a landscape way. Although I will be doing that, I also want to try to use more than just two faces and incorporate more angles and different features than what John Stezaker has used in his work. For my next response to his work, I will also be putting photographs on top of other photographs like the one we can see on the top right hand corner on the mood board that I created of his work. I will be using different images that I used as well as found photographs online to represent and visualise what the photograph underneath means to me and what feelings arise when I look at the photograph. By using found photographs online, I am also looking into vernacular photography, which using found photographs is the main concept of this genre of photography. Lastly, I will be using the outline of people and buildings and adding something else inside of that outline. I think this is a creative way of representing inner feelings and a good way of telling the truth about someone or a place.
Photoshoot Three: For this photo shoot, I will looking at the works of Joachim Schmid and will be responding to some of his most known pieces. The only area that I will be responding to from his work is the use of ripped up images. I really like that concept of ripping up an image and trying to piece it back together, however, it will never look and be the same as of when the photograph was still intact. I also really like the fact that some parts of these photographs are missing, which is something I will also be doing to my photographs. I will be doing so, as I personally think, it adds a sense of mystery to not only to what the photograph would look like if it wasn’t missing any pieces, but also as it will leave the viewers wondering the meaning of the photograph, the concept behind it and the reasons for ripping up certain images and leaving parts out.
Photoshoot Four: For this last photo shoot, I will be looking at the works of Chino Otsuka and will be responding to her creative and meaning however still simplistic body of work. I will be looking to find photographs of where I was photographed alone, as it will give me space to add myself to the same photograph. Although, Chino has included herself with a wide age gap, that is something that I will not be doing the same thing as her. Instead, I will be including myself almost at the same stages in my life as the original photographs. The reason as to why I will be doing so is so that I can make it look like I am more of a twin like a true reflection of the same person instead of making it look like there are two different people in the same photograph. I think that this way I will be conveying the fact that I was still a kid when my life completely changed, and the fact that I still was in the same frames of mind, which all changed when I moved away.
A lot of these ideas for photo shoots will seem very similar, however, I am going to be making sure that the visuals will be correspondent to the different visuals of each artist that I am looking at for this project.