Connecting Essay 4

This photograph is part of my personal comment unit and was inspired by the photographer 'Judith Golden'. This photograph shows the theme of domestic abuse and shows what abuse does to women's appearance. This photograph shows a negative personal comment on domestic abuse and has been taken to show the consumers that this topic is very serious and should be dealt with better. The black eye, bruises and cuts are very graphic and hard hitting which allows the consumers to be shocked and disturbed by this photograph. I have used half the face of an actual case where a women has been abused to make this photograph very realistic and severe. By holding it in line with my face allows the consumer to see the major difference and how domestic abuse is something that deeply ruins a females confidence as her face is ruined. I edited this photograph by changing the adjustments to black and white  however still showing the colour's of the damaged and injured side of the face to emphasis the pain and show the sore redness. This technique is called colour selection and is something I learnt in unit 1. Also the black and white shows the negativity of this photograph and makes the side of the face in colour stand out even more being the main focus of the piece.

This photograph is a self portrait of 'Judith Golden' and shows her artistic skills in photography. Judith Golden's work is all about the history of women exploring self and society. This particular photograph is about makeup and how appearance is formed by the influence of the media. This photograph shows the summer change over of makeup as its very bright and colourful. The idea of using a model from a magazine and covering it over half of her face is a very inspirational idea and brings across the message very clear. This is how many people in society copy the media because they don't have their own identity. This photograph has a bright purple background that stands outs and is very appealing colour towards her target consumers of females.

Overall both of these photographs have a connection as they both share the idea of using another identity for half of the face to bring across their messages. They both have separate messages however use the same style to portray these. They are both also aimed at the target audience of females and both show issues that females loose huge confidence by. However my photograph is more of a serious issue all though both issues leave a women with low confidence.