The project that I have chosen to do is personal comment. I chose this because when I was creating my mind map the ideas I had were expanding the more I planned different shoots. It also is personal therefore I can put my own thoughts and emotions into my work.
The first Idea that I came up with was 'domestic abuse' personal comment relates to this as most women don't have the voice or confidence to speak up and escape from there fear and unhappiness. My photographs would express the damage that their abuser does to there appearance physically and mentally. Domestic abuse is incidents which involve threatening behaviour and violence regardless of gender and sexuality. Domestic abuse is a very intimidating situation and at least 1 in 4 women experience domestic violence in their lifetime and between 1 in 8 and 1 in 10 women experience it annually. The reason I am photographing representations of women who suffer with domestic abuse is because research shows that domestic violence is most commonly experienced by women and perpetrated by men. Domestic abuse is committed mainly as the abuser wants power and control.
To show this I'm going to use dark back drops and edit the photograph to look graphic to show the pain these women have to deal with.
My second idea is the theme of poverty this relates to my project of personal comment because poverty is something that society ignores and people in poverty are starting to become invisible. My photography is going to focus on global poverty and how there life is affected by it. Nearly half of the worlds population live on $2.50 a day and 1 billion children are poverty this shows how serious poverty is and can massively affect there health as they want have the money to afford treatment which could result in death. To show poverty in my photography I'm going to use harsh tones and innocent's to show the viewers the sadness and desperateness of the people in poverty and to get them to stand up and help or sympathise with my photography. My photograph will each shows a message about poverty and how different people can be affected in different ways.
Another idea I had which made me chose personal comment as my project was the idea of showing my personal comment in fashion and how each style has transformed and changed for each era. The styles I would like to focus on are the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's this is because the style for each one is totally different and shows huge personality as well. Fashion is a popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour. Each of these features will be shown in my photograph and I will present my work showing the contrast between each one. For example the 60's will be presented in black and white as colour wasn't shown in photographs in them times. Each style will show the personal comment on the individualisation and uniqueness of fashion and how it can makes someone who they are.
In contrast with this topic is how young teenagers especially are conscience about there body and weight when this shouldn't be a worry to them as making life memories should be more important as this creates happiness. In some cases when mainly teenage girls get very conscience about there body they decided to stop eating or watch there calories very carefully this can result in serious cases of anorexia. To show this in my work an idea I have will be to take close ups of the scales and low angle point of view shoots showing the girls feet on the scales and her face hidden to show her insecurities.
Although the ideas above involve human the environment is something that would fit well with my project of personal comment. This is because the environment is something that not a lot of people realise there harming. I have researched and found out that every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil, 1,400 kilowatts of energy and 60 pound of air pollution. To show this in my photography an idea of presenting my work in a grid method or photo joiner to show the contrast of how plants and the environment are healthy and unharmed to the ruined and wilted plants and environment. These shoots will be captured in locations as this will bring out the message much clearer and will be example of what's happening to the environment in our world which will make the photographs very realistic.
Stereotypes are another topic that will relate to my project of personal comment this is because society have so many representations of certain social groups, cultures, age and gender that there will be endless photographs and ideas that I can expand on to show personal comment in this topic. Stereotypes are a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. For example a punk teenager boy or girl is stereotyped to wear black, have wacky hair and dark makeup with a rebellious attitude and listen to punk/rock music. Someone like this is possible to be alive however not all people who have the appearance like this are 'punks' and can be simply a kind and caring person. An idea for stereotypes is to hold signs with rhetorical questions or statements about specific stereotypes and present them in a grid method as single photographs or in a short video clip with music to show a versatility in my photography work.
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