Brief
The objective of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to explore the themes covered in Part Two with regard to the use of both studio and location for the creation of portraits.
This assignment is about taking what has worked from the above exercises and then trying to develop this further in terms of interchanging the use of portraits taken on location (street) with portraits taken inside (studio).
You need to develop a series of five final images to present to the viewer as a themed body of work. Pay close attention to the look and feel of each image and think of how they will work together as a series. The theme is up to you to choose; you could take a series of images of a single subject or a series of subjects in a themed environment. There is no right answer, so experiment.
“Sitters carry on with a handicap in a chancy business, since they can only guess how they looked when the shutter was released. For portrait subjects to have been off the mark in their self-affirmation or for photographers inadvertently, or deliberately, to capture them unaware of it, was human on both their parts.”
Kozloff, M. The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900 (2007) London: Phaidon Press. Pg 8.
My intent was to show the subjects in a split second of not being sure if they are the focus of the camera lens or not. Their gaze is not specifically into the camera lens in the knowledge that their photo is being taken, nor is it accidental. The gaze is that of people who are unsure.
Final Five
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