WHY CHOOSE THE SUBJECT OF FEMININITY FOR THE IDENTITY PROJECT:

I chose the theme of femininity for my project as I straight away had lots of ideas in mind for photoshoots. I was inspired originally by Justine Kurland, and specifically her ‘girl pictures’ book. In this book she displays images of girls in different places but majority of her images are taken in nature, rural and countryside areas. Some of her images are staged, but some of them aren’t and the idea of this interested me to try and do the same thing, capture images of girls naturally in those kinds of settings. Kurland’s work can be analysed in different ways, however, I like the fact she represents women as being independent and free. Women don’t need men in their life to thrive and opposed to the stereotypical view of women being emotional, submissive, quiet, graceful, passive, weak, sensitive, nurturing and soft, they can also be dominant, strong and independant. Justine displays this really well through some of her images like, for example, ‘double headed spit monster’ where you can see two girls pinning a boy down, spitting on him.

HOW DID I PLAN THIS PROJECT:

Using my photoshoot plan, me and my friends completed this shoot together, we visited different places on the island, including the north coast, Rozel woodland area and different fields, to fit the theme of Justine Kurlands images. We planned to dress in basic coloured outfits, nothing too extreme. I think we successfully planned this shoot and followed through with it.

WHAT WENT WRONG IN THIS PROJECT:

I think I could of planned and carried out another photoshoot from a different perspective of femininity. I feel I could of explored the theme more with different settings and aspects of femininity. I believe my photoshoot was very successful, however, I think I would of benefitted from more of a range of images.

OVERALL:

overall, I am really happy with the outcome of my images, I feel the process of the completing the photoshoot was successful. Everything went to plan. I personally feel that this has been my strongest project so far, I think this is because I liked the theme of femininity and I enjoyed going out taking images and experimenting with them. It was also more motivating that the outcomes were good to work with.