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Environment - Exploring selfies, editing in photography

In keeping with the theme of social media environment, i wanted to look into social interaction, and how it has changed with social media. How we interact now, without interacting at all. So as i have been going around my day watching people, how they use there phones in social situations or when we are taking a break from ... well anything. 










I wanted to play around with photo manipulation so i started with these images, i thought i could try to edit them in a way that makes them look... off. Something about the image isn't right.







SELFIE EXPERIMENTS

I then wanted to come back to the idea of how a selfie should be a way of expressing yourself, or a feeling. The same way a painting dose. I have been looking more into self portraits, paintings through out art history and how they are conveying a feeling. 


Van Gogh self-portrait (1889) 
Egon Schiele, 'Self Portrait with Raised Bared Shoulder', 1912, 

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940, By Frida Kahlo
Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon, 1941 by Salvador Dali
Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1969


So i took some "selfies" i wanted to just take one of my face relaxed with no makeup on so i took these...







I wanted to start by playing around with editing. The idea of trying to express yourself in a more abstracted way. How we feel, regardless of how it makes us look to others. That week i was feeling very fragile and wanted to use that feeling in my experiments. 




















I also played around with other images I had.








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