For a practice I've taken stills based on an early concept where a young man receives an injury on his face.
I've been advised to steer away from applying a personal portrayal in the photography
and delve further into the deeper meaning of scars, portray a variety of examples.
The concept of scars and research as shown on the blog is coming along well. I think at the moment the work is strongest where you have found references to actual scars - be that on the body or in the environment - rather than prosthetic make up or digital construction.
ReplyDeleteThe experiments are interesting but if you really want to work with make up or digital techniques the production values have to be much higher and you would have to use with intention - to convey some kind of deliberate message to the viewer that relates to the brief. A reminder of some possibiities c&p from project brief:
This could be through its relationship to the archive – the images, films, objects, documents and traces through which we recall and revisit individual and shared memories and histories. You could also consider or imagine possible futures and how these may link to the present and the past. For example you could choose to examine life cycles: replenishment or regeneration, the old constantly being replaced by the new, or even the young usurping the old. From seed to harvest, a cake baked and eaten, the repurposing of old things into new, the passing of genes to new generations and so on. The possibilities are endless.
Let's discuss tomorrow. And I liked the drawing of the scarf and dogs btw!