PLAN:

For my response to breaking the rule of technicality i have been heavily influenced by documentary photographer Laura El Tantawy. She breaks the rule of technicality through her unusual colour tones which highlight the drama of the situation as well as not correctly exposing the image so that there is a blur on the images. these are aspects that i am going to try to recreate in my own image. The focus of my shoot will be on highlighting how women are politically free in the twenty-first century to express themselves in the way that they want to.

Over the weekend i will focus on taking images of adolescent females who are expressing themselves. in further blog posts i will be researching the freedoms and limitations of women and how they fought for political freedoms and won the right to vote as well as the feminist movement which shows how women continued to fight for gender equality and the right to express themselves. this will continue to be the basis of my project for the next 6 weeks were i explore feminist photography and how women in photograph and their representation has changed over the last century following the 100th anniversary of women’s rights to vote.

This shoot will act as a starting point for the rest of my project and i will also use it as a way to experiment in the way that i can break the rule of technicality throughout the project showing another element of freedom as photography is now a lot more free and we are able to capture documentary photographs in any way we want. Therefore i am going to use coloured plastic sheets to over the lens whilst making my photographs to firstly alter the natural colour of the image and secondly to create a slight blur to the images.

EVALUATION:

Overall, i am happy with the outcome of this shoot, i used the the filter paper as a way of distorting the natural image as well as leaving the exposure open for slightly longer so that you can see that the images are over exposed and have not been taken in a correct technical manner. The photographs that i made, due to the orange filter look like the outcome of images from the 70’s which is what i was hoping to capture. Although i have created images of females in a modern view they still highlight the new found freedoms that women have due to the females that protests in the feminist movement throughout the twentieth century. From this shoot i have considered breaking the rule of technicality more in my project to create this old fashioned images linking the theme to the time i am focusing on. In further shoots i will try to recreate images from the 1970’s when the movement was actually occurring and show women as they were first experiencing freedoms to express there sexuality and femininity.