For my second photo-shoot, I have decided to focus on breaking stereotypical female gender roles. With this approach, I will take a more historical look into the stereotypes of gender, as I feel that comparing the progress in the way women are viewed as individuals provides a very obvious example of the way that gender roles have developed and changed over time. I will be focusing on the more subtle differences in the way women are treated and perceived (both positive and negative sides), and will be showing contrast between images throughout the photo-shoot.

I will be focusing on the strength of individual women in comparison the the way in which they are often perceived by society, and will be making overt comparisons between the ways that men are perceived, versus the way that women are perceived when carrying out certain activities and roles. I will attempt to convey the way in which women have been allowed to have more control over their autonomy, and have been liberated in the sense of controlling their own views on beauty, while also bringing to light how women still struggle with the weight of media/society’s expectations on them to be individual and strong, as well as feminine and beautiful. I will highlight that, when women decide not to abide to societies ideals of beauty, they make people uncomfortable, and i will be using these examples in order to show the contrast between women’s views of themselves in the mid 20th century, versus the present day.

I have created a mind-map to show ideas for photo-shoot 2: