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Materials: Graphite pencil on oil paper
Size: 12 in. x 15.5 in.
Black and white self portrait meant to represent how I feel about myself and my personality. While I come to school to learn and socialize, sometimes I feel dull, as though I am just going through the motions and simply lost in my own head space (hence the black and white). I would love to view myself as someone who is fun and outgoing, socializing at parties and getting into trouble, even if I look the same on the outside (seeing myself in the reflections of balloons).
I think the shop was called Quernstones, a car is reflected from across the street and the photo contains a self portrait.
Self Reflection: This project was one of my favourite shoots so far because I am a big fan of portraits and capturing emotion. One thing I learnt was to look deeper into my results because the ones I was going to cut at at first are the ones I ended up finding the strongest. It was really satisfying to put together a spread that represents the essence of youth. To me this album says "teens who want to party off the schoolweek with their best friends". I am really happy with how I completed this project.
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Nosce te ipsum.
I took a walk with Carly, we went to the Garden of Eden (no joke). I went for a time to search for peace (things have been strange lately) and, being that Carly shares a brain with me most of time, I brought her along with me. **(I love Carly - she is one of the only people I can truly be completely myself and not worry about any kind of judgement)**
Title: I do not like to place myself as the subject of a photo, so I am projecting myself onto Carly in this one.
Photo Edit: Many thanks to Liz for the idea of the border - I fought with the sky for a long time (being as washed out as it is) and I think the border really helps with that...also, I like the coloring in this one, but wait for another look at the same shot later. I post this one for now.
Heads by Julian Opie, feathered fashion creations by various designers and a lushly coloured interior, all at the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle - well worth a visit!
Because she lived in a hospice operated by nuns whose piety forbade the presence of mirrors, she was visibly ecstatic when she noticed that I had a camera. We didn’t share a common language, but I understood from her gesturing to my lens, herself and the bindi I had painted on her forehead that morning that she wanted to see how she looked. As I held up the camera, she kept gesturing, closer, closer, closer. I stopped just short of her face, took the photo, and showed her. Her hands rose immediately to her face, and when she looked at me I was confused to see that tears had filled her eyes. She held up eight fingers, and I remembered from the record book: eight years she’d been living in Shantidan; eight years since she’d seen her own reflection.
Photographer: Aubrey Sitler
Location: Kolkata, India
A part of the British Exploring Expedition to Oman I didn't account for was the amount of thinking time I would have.
Falling asleep under the stars every night, constantly thinking of home, the future, the past and marvelling at how on earth I managed to make this my present really influenced my expedition - so I got one of my team mates to help me create this feeling in a photo.
The light was created using a sparkler!