Photoshoots/ Plan

PhotoShoot One Plan-

My plan for my first photo shoot was to take photos of womanhood, there is a lot of speculation around females just being used as a housewife, I wanted too use my first photo shoot too prove that womanhood could be fun as well, and that woman should not be given every single housework and cleaning task, I took inspiration from Crissy Knight, her photobook ‘woman of yesterday’ shows pictures of woman and labels attached underneath them stating what they are, my aim was too take this idea and also reverse it.

My response to this was proving how women do not need to be labeled, and can just be and do whatever they want.

PhotoShoot Two Plan-

The plan for my second photoshoot was to evaluate the idea of women being together, for a very long time women were separated, girls not allowed to go to school and as they grew they would be taught how too cook and clean by their mothers basically living for the man, things have new developed, and I wanted to show how women should no longer be seperated, and that they can help each other without fighting over the man. My inspiration for this was Claude Cahun and the ideas of culture wars constantly separating people. My inspiration wasn’t so much her actual photography but rather who she was, the fact that her pronouns being ‘ then/theirs’ showing a pure amount of fluidity rather than fitting in a box, and the fact that she was an inspiration, she decided to take photographs instead of being shoved into a kitchen which inspired many other women, which now allows for women today to band together and be what they want.

My responses-

PhotoShoot Three Plan-

The idea behind my third photoshoot was to shows girls being ‘rebels’, breaking the normal of them just being ‘ lovely, motherly, caring’ but instead living as reckless of a life as they want. Showing females doing something which would more fit in with masculine traits. I didn’t have an artist inspiration for this photoshoot in my mind but my one idea was to prove how females don’t always have to be caring, femininity does not have too all be about sitting still and looking pretty, but instead its about females leading how they want to lead, and living their own life too the fullest, because after all they are people with the same craziness as men. It was also to break the standard that all women do with their ‘girlfriend’s’ is girls things, like gossiping or doing each others hair, but that they can do the same ‘manly’ activities’ as everyone else, while still being feminine.

PhotoShoot Four –

My plan for this photoshoot was to use it for my environmental portraiture as I did not have many photos, the idea for dancing for environmental portraiture can open many opportunities, whether this person teaches dance or performs dance is very hard to capture, so i’ve tried my best to capture my model in her own dancing environment teaching, my model has her own full time job but doesn’t feel as if she is in her own environment until she’s working on her own business, I wanted to use these images to portray the empowerment of femininity and how beautifully people can flourish when places in their favorite environment.

Photoshoot Five-

The idea behind my fifth photoshoot was to capture movement and blur as inspired by Clare Rae, the idea of capturing movement and creating a blur tells a story about the sport, I choose to photograph skating as its more of a boyish sport rather than feminine due to the risk factor and how boys tend to be more ‘reckless’.