lindsey

'What They Carried' series.

 

For this project, I wanted to explore self-perception and objective analysis. By this I mean, how one perceives themselves, or the image in which they attempt to create an idealized image of themselves verse the perception of a third party, or individual other than themselves. For this project, I plan on shooting young, seemingly beautiful women. My incentive is to capture an ideal vastly different than when they have control of their perception. Being among a ‘selfie’ generation, where individuals take pictures or self-portraits of themselves, the individual ultimately has sole control. The individual has control over the setting that the picture is taken, the clothes in which they are wearing, the expression they portray, all the way to how the image is edited. Thus, the control of their self-perception is actively decided and how they want to be seen by others is emitted. In order to do this, I plan on revoking this sense of control from the individuals I photograph, causing the individual to surrender control. The reasoning for this is to capture how the individual views their ‘ideal’ self in contrast with my interpretation of their beauty in a more natural form. Ideally, I hope to contrast their self-objectivity and how their “raw” form is perceived.

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