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Photography HNC final images development.

So continuing from my last blog post i wanted to create my finial images by developing some different ideas through what i researched in my last post.

Like i said before i wanted to use PC culture and the new articles i read about words being 'banned', gender rules. Keeping in mind what i like about the overly dramatic Caravaggio paintings and Hannah Hochs symbolism.

I started experimenting with ideas....




 I wanted to keep things very 'cut and paste' 







After experimenting a bit with imagery i decided to start making my final images.  I wanted to keep things dramatic, almost theatrical in keeping with what i like about renaissance paintings. But i wanted to use the overall feeling to express how i feel about Pc culture. Its strange, overly dramatic and at times has a bit of humor to it but it is also a little bit scary.

Keeping this in mind i wanted to take time to think about the symbolism...



This image i wanted to keep all the things i said above about the overall feel. But i wanted to add things that expressed gender culture. i wanted to keep the figures gender less in a way so i faced my torso backwards also giving it an odd look that i think works well. Then on the middle figure i wanted to add a skirt like the other two again to express the gender less idea. I also added the hands holding the male and female symbols to signify the idea of it all being held up to out attention. I added he book being held by a body with an eye for a head to show our focus on the word and how we aim to see all meaning to every word. I added a aztec blanked ( my rug) that shows a little cultural appropriation. again facing forward to bring it to attention. 







This image is inspired by Caravaggio  fortune teller. I liked the idea of two people having a discusion. But how can you express the topics being discussed with images?. I have always thought when two people debate a subject, most the time, they are usually not listening, seeing or hearing the other. They point blame and pull in different subjects ( the book the finger) i used the rope being pulled out of the mouths to express the constant tug of war between them.  Again i added the head dress for cultural appropriation.





This one is similar to the one above. Pointing, drama and gender. I added the nipples because i had this thought when i was looking up this subject that we have so much controversy over the nipple but really it is the only thing everyone no matter what they identify as has nipples and i thought it would be a bit of fun to add them in. The light bulb is a little head nod to hannah hochs beautiful girl who is saying the modern woman is a bright thinker. again a bit of humor. I really like eyes for symbolism, they can express so much, seeings, inspecting, understanding, looking, not looking and so much more i feel this is such a good symbol for what i am expressing in these collages.

 Again with this image i used the twitter symbol to show how things spread online. again with the nipples. And a dancer to show how we dance around subjects.


I enjoy this type of work, i like making these collages. I know it is a very different way for photography and some might even question if it is, but i say well where is the digital editing line in which i should not cross? when is it digital art and when is it photography?.

I will present these on Thursday to the class.

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