PHOTO SHOOT PLAN

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.

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