PERSONAL RESPONSES TO FINAL IMAGES
My final images link to the concept of body image. These photographs act out what the typical stereotype teenage girl should be wearing. The baggy clothes express what the girl wants to look like, who she wants to show her identity as and what she wants to wear. But in todays society , people are so hung up on appearance and looks, outfits can define someone as a person. Wearing tight underwear and bras that fill out ladies breasts is what they are expected to wear , that’s what people (men or women) are happy and excited to see. There’s barely nothing on personality anymore. These problems all over the world lead to many issues such as eating disorders, anxiety, depression.
My images in colour represent anger, fear, hate as for the colour theme being red. My final image, a collab of three images, are changed to black and white to express the dullness and fear that this girl feels in herself for wearing somethings that she is tricked into having to wear by society. Her hands placed around her waist as if she isn’t happy with her body indicates that wearing this sort of clothing makes her unhappy.
Linking To A Photographer
Laia Abril’s photography links to my photo-shoot as part of her work she bases around body image and eating disorders. These people that are either underweight or have eating disorders reflects on their identity and how they see themselves differently to others. This image below I tried to recreate with my own photography…
Laia’s work being very colourless made me change my image into black and white for them to relate to each other better. A white background in both images and an unseen face of a figure of a lady makes the image more effective as we as viewers can only guess what the model feels judging off body gestures and colour.
Evaluate and Critique
If I was to do this photo-shoot again , I would firstly present my final outcome with a better presentation, for example … Laia Abril has shown her work in a book. If I had more time I would have taken images of a mirror and presented my images onto mirrors to replicate the unhappy body image of my models self.