I believe after different attempts and layouts this was the one I found was the strongest. I have insisted on making sure I have variety throughout and too not have all my images in the same format. Although there are a lot of double page spreads, I have made sure that I have split them up evenly so its not the same throughout. I have included borders throughout around certain images to create that sense of variety due to me wanting more then one layout. The use of borders and different positions of the images throughout the book I believe produces a create and interesting feel to the book as it doesn’t have a boring, consistent theme throughout. The images that I have chosen to include in my book I believe reflect my chosen theme the strongest and in a way that clearly tells an interesting story. Because of this, it enables me to produce a book that opens the viewers mind to how people can react to man made structures around them and how they can control but also how they are affected by them.
Following the recent artists I have taken influence to, I want to re-create pictures that stimulate the same agenda as contemporary female artists. Marina Abramovic incorporates performance into her work which is something I would also like to integrate, through directing my subjects in scenarios that summarize their identities through displaying their characteristics and traits in forms of performance. I will shoot my subjects in one location which I have decided to be in a personal space which therefore adds to their identity – these will fundamentally be environmental portraits. I want to capture my subjects interaction within their room though objects and the space itself as I believe every object someone collects has a personal meaning and connection with the person – a reference to artist Iiu susiraja. I also interpret someone’s bedroom as a personal landscape that embodies someones personality. My concept is influenced behind women in art and the struggle to gain a creative outlet that has no dominance in masculinity, like traditional paintings. Instead this photo shoot is significant to me because I am a female producing pictures of other females and therefore representing them without hegemonic hold of masculinity, also presenting them as individuals rather than objects. This is something I have noticed within Izumi Miyazaki’s self-portraits, a movement away from the classifications of female stereotypes of beauty and ‘femininity’. My goal is to create a series of images that are an insight into a strangers life without the use of words.
