From doing photoshoots with a variety of subject matters focusing on things such as portraits, landscapes and and street, I have found out that I would like to explore further with shooting people as my main interest/concept.
I will further explore the human form and how the intimacy and privacy can be reflected between different people. Looking at documenting them in a raw, exposed way. Using polariods and digital imagery I believe these will capture it well as with digital imagery I will be able to mediate the colours during production and post production, then with polariods I will have to make sure that the lighting is correct so there is a contrast to the skin.
From doing a 3 point lighting workshop I wish to explore this further and I believe that this will be the best lighting for my concept.
Inspirations/Sources:
Andy Warhol - The polariod series that Andy Warhol did from 1975 onwards are wholly portrait shots, most of the images are very well lit showing a lot of skin, with no posed facial expressions. Rather than constructed photos these explore the document side more so.
Keaton Henson - I like how the music video for 'Earnestly yours' focuses mainly on the the body and the features. With the colours of the skin being very raw.
Lee Jeffries - Series called 'Homeless' focuses on the portraits documenting the close up portrait shots. There is a mixture between the construction of the poses and the documentation. Most of his images are shot in monochrome with a heavy use of shadow in contrast to the light.
Hong Sungchul - Within his work Sungchul uses elastic strings which the images are printed onto and then staggers them next to each other to reveal an overal picture.
David Hockney - Would composition multiple polariods (photo collages) together. He took each picture at slightly different positions and angles and the end result closely resembles that of cubism.
Lucas Samaras - Would shoot self portraits and manipulate the coloured dyes of the polariod with different objects, creating patterned backgrounds and distorting the image itself.
