Paige Woods Photography Blog: 2013

Sunday, 20 January 2013

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Friday, 18 January 2013

These images were used for my first project, there purpose was to show the change in personality and appearance of someone when they are themselves and when they are getting dressed up to go out. I wanted to mainly question, what do we perceive as 'Beauty'?

I asked my friends to style one half of their hair as it they were going out and the other half they left natural. They also did the same with their make up, in order to change the appearance of one side of their face.

Once I had taken the original images I then uploaded them to 'Photoshop' in which I added a gradient, so that the images appeared bolder and more unique. I then began to add words around my models head that were associated with the different appearances. For example I used the words 'Innocent, Natural, Beauty? etc for the untouched side of the face. However for the side of my models faces that they added make up too, I used words like: 'Pretty, Woman and then Beauty? again as I was trying to question what we perceive as Beauty. Is is the natural aspect of a person or their manipulated appearance that we perceive as Beauty?

The image to the left was my original inspiration for the 'Teen Perception' series. It was taken by the photographer Linder Sterling, whose view on radical feminism is portrayed throughout her images. Sterling's images often feature a female in which she then places domestic items over their bodies in order to emphasise the cultural expectations of women.

I have taken Linder Sterling's original image into thought when creating my own photographer inspired images. I used the concept of 'Teen Perception', how nowadays in modern society teenagers are often seen as shallow and ungrateful and are only concerned by the technological advances in society. I developed this notion by creating a series of images portraying the perception of teenagers, by taking a single image and then adding other images of items that are seen as important to teenagers.