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Hi, all! I've been away a long time. I have been focused more on writing than on the photo art. But I recently started a self-portrait series on my blog and thought I would share those here as well. This will be an ongoing project.
Self-portrait 2 - You can read the full blog post here: karenleekleis.com/2016/06/29/the-beauty-in-the-body/
Hope you all are doing well! I have some errands to run this morning but will be back later to catch up more. :-)
Pregnant body image concept shots
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour graded re-edit of a shot captured in May 2019.
It still strikes me how unnaturally tall and think the mannequins are compared to real human proportions and how this could negatively impact an individuals body image. It is sickening that much of the fashion industry still considers that 'clothes hang better' on tall and skinny models. A study found that a majority of fashion models had a BMI of around 17 which yet the average adult BMI for women in the USA is around 26. The clothes are designed to fit an unrealistic expectation.
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Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent. We become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.
Eric Maisel
These photos are for a photojournalism class that I'm taking...the subject was chosen because of her distorted body image.
Note to self: Must stop worrying about weight out loud. Even poor Totoro thinks he has put on a few ounces! He hasn't, of course, just been watching the Disney Channel too much.. I tell him he doesn't need to be like all those skinny cartoon characters, but I must also start practicing what I preach...
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...And every magazine tells her she's not good enough
The pictures that she sees make her cry.
~Jon McLaughlin
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This is an illustration I am working on for my photojournalism class. It's on eating disorders and body image.
I just did the editing in about 15 min. so it's a pretty rough draft. Feedback would be much appreciated.
I'm sucking in for the front image to get the ribs out a little more and then I used the bulge liquify tool on the reflection to make it look obese. Needs a lot of work .. the reflection but it's going to wait till after I turn in my movie Monday.
Replaced: Dec. 11. - is it looking any better now? I did a little work on it.
Replace: Dec 10, 2008: Sorry about the watermark but people keep stealing this image.
Not sure its the photograph, the camera, the angle or the distortion - I think he is just wrong.
Maybe its just the way he is standing.
Wellington, Somerset, UK.
"My art is an extension of myself, a third hand that serves my thoughts and dreams to the world. It is dark and I happily use the word creepy, yet it can also be whimsical and sad and surreal. These words do not define the process, simply the end result. What we are is more than what everyone sees when the process is complete."
www.promotingpassion.com/the-third-hand/
I visited the darker side of my imagination this week and it felt good. That old feeling came back, the creeping thought of "should I share this?" and I was immediately at peace, happily moving forward with a self-portrait that calls to mind earlier works while pairing it with a new environment.
Create what you love, no matter what <3
Red Cap Oranda style self portrait of me in the future accounting for continued growth in my ears and nose. Bravo, me!
When I started self-portraiture I remember getting an email from someone telling me I'm too ugly to be in pictures. I remember being told I look too skinny, that I look too fat, that my photography would be better for choosing someone else to photograph. I remember questioning if the art world really needed another young white girl in pictures. I remember feeling guilty for not being comfortable enough around others to photograph them. I felt narcissistic for enjoying taking my own picture.
A decade of self-portraiture will show you things about yourself that can't be captured in pictures. Every week for the past 11 years I've taken pictures of myself. Every. Single. Week. I have watched my body transform. I have watched my face change. I can look at an image of mine and remember how I felt about myself that day - if I loathed the way I looked or loved it, or felt indifferent. I remember when those emails hurt. I remember when they stopped hurting. I remember when I learned to accept the proportions of my body, my nose, my face shape, my height, my weight.
Now I know what it feels like to practice body acceptance. I know what it's like to find compassion for the people who choose to look upon my craft negatively, because that is almost always a reflection of how they feel about themselves - about their body, about their art, about their life. And I know how it feels to find common ground in that search for acceptance, because we're all doing the best we can.
If anyone makes you feel less than worthy of your body, or less than deserving of acceptance, or less than beautiful in your skin...hold up a mirror to them and ask how they feel about themselves. That mirror is often the art we make in spite of the criticism. There it remains as a testament to our power.
Watching the 'Mirror, Mirror' documentary a few weeks ago got me thinking about how so many of us are affected by body image issues without even realising it.
For those of you that saw it, you'll know that a number of the people featured on the show were extreme examples of people suffering from body image issues.
Although I acknowledge that they were extreme, it made me wonder how many of us have/do suffer from a form of it. Personally, I can think of very few people in my life who aren't extremely conscious of their weight and/or physical appearance but I wonder how many of us are seeing our bodies through a distorted lens?
When I tried to relate to some of the issues these people were going through, the image below came to mind and I went searching through my photo albums to reassure myself that it was exactly as I remembered. Incredibly, it was nowhere near it and I am absolutely shocked by how I remember feeling about it - and how I see it today.
I had a friend take this image for me in 2009/2010. At the time she told me I looked great and I should put it online. I was horrified and told her there was no way I could put that online because my stomach wasn't flat enough. I was embarrassed that it looked so big in this photo.
Looking at it now, I can't believe I even thought that way. I can't believe how strongly I felt that - so much so that I can still remember that feeling today. In my mind, I was much bigger than this photo shows but I SAW it completely differently and I was adamant that I was right. It is terrifying to me now that I couldn't see myself clearly and yet at the time I was so sure the problem was just other people not being honest with me.
Can anyone else relate to this?
In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (USA Today, 1996).
One author reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen (Brumberg, 1997).
It's just plain sad.
On a lighter note, I went to the bins yesterday with Lillie and her stepmom Jenny and I bought a whole bag of 80'sness. Though, that swimsuit is actually from a different thrift store. Haha.
But anyway yeah, lots of new clothes for me and the LABYRINTH SOUNDTRACK. (On vinyl of course.) Yeahyeahyeah.
Oh and yesterday I beat my record for views and got 4002 in one day, and like, 203 of both comments and favorites. Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :)
Explored #26.
In my current module at university - Documents and Fictions - I began looking at body image and created alot of images of personal and others insecurities on their body. In the last hurdle before my deadline next week I have been experimenting with projection mapping on the body and that worked better than I thought but once I created those images I felt it wasn't exactly what I was trying to achieve. By projecting certain images onto the body I was trying to show the emotions/thoughts/mental state of the person within the photograph. Although this somewhat worked I felt it needed something a little more. I then began experimenting with layering over headshots I had done previously whilst bored and achieved something quite like this one here. I then wanted to experiment with this further and this is the outcome of that.
I plan to expose lightsensitive paper to this image from my laptop and produce these in the dark room next week and hopefully they'll have an extra layer of passion within them!
(If you want to find out further information about the body of work, check out the photographs after this one and keep coming back for the rest of the series to be uploaded. Each photograph will have further information. OR visit my website where further information and the whole body of work is together - www.kacieball.co.uk )
This is racy for me. I never would have been able to post a picture like this a year ago. I'm sure that my family will be a little uncomfortable, but you know what? This, to me, is such a symbol of how far I've come both in terms of confidence in my composition skills as a photographer and also in my self confidence and comfort in my own skin. It helps that I've lost about thirty pounds since I started this 365 too. Anyway, this is day five of my series for Seven Deadly Sins Week in totw. Today I give you lust.
Lust or lechery is usually thought of as excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Aristotle's criterion was excessive love of others, which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. In Dante's Purgatorio, the penitent walks within flames to purge himself of lustful/sexual thoughts and feelings. In Dante's "Inferno", unforgiven souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane like winds symbolic of their own lack of self control to their lustful passions in earthly life.
One outtake in the comments that is super similar because I really couldn't decide which I liked better. And you should know my m.o. by now...if I can't choose, I just throw the second choice up in the comments. ;)
365 Days (self portraits): Day 359
TOTW: Seven Deadly Sins - Lust
52 Weeks of Feeling Fit: Week 12
Oh look! A selfie!
I won't even get into the way that I see myself in this picture. Suffice it to say that I've been plagued since puberty with a very warped self image. It doesn't matter if I weigh 120 lbs or 220 lbs. I will always pick myself apart and see the absolute worst. It's been a struggle all of my life, but especially these past few months leading up my wedding.
My trainer asked me last week how much weight I've lost since I started working out with him. The honest answer is that I have no idea. I've refused to get on a scale. I knew from the outset that no matter how much weight I lost, it wouldn't be enough in my mind. And no matter what the scale read on my wedding day, I'd only feel disappointed. So I simply made the decision to not look. Instead, I've been focused on getting strong, getting healthy, eating healthy, and getting myself into the best shape that I can.
I'm far from my end goal, but I feel worlds better than I did even three months ago. And because I haven't set my wedding day as my "goal," so to speak, I know that I won't let down my efforts when we return from our honeymoon. My goal doesn't have a destination. My goal is the constant journey towards "better."
And I'm not gonna lie, it feels good not to be at war with myself for a change.
Research suggests that about one percent (1%) of female adolescents have anorexia. That means that about one out of every one hundred young women between ten and twenty are starving themselves, sometimes to death.
Again, I'm not anorexic. Or bulimic.
But I'm sure that most girls at some point in their life feel this way. I've been struggling with poor self image since I was about 8 or 9. =/
I'm glad I can be happy with a photo if I can't be happy with myself though, because I actually like this.
Anyway today was pretty fun. Max and I walked down to Hawthorne and I bought an American Apparel sweatshirt (purple :D) finally! Also a killer C3PO shirt and brown skinny chords.
Oh and btw the only light here is the refrigerator, and a little bit (but not much) natural window light.
Today is my last day with braces! :D :D
EDIT: I replaced the photo with the one in the comment. :) I think I do like it better.
Oh and Explored #225.