This week was the End of Year exhibition, marking the end of my course at Tameside College. Although I am really sad about leaving, it was quite exciting being part of the show! Here's the last project I will ever do for Tameside...
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“We
all start out with a false belief about ourselves.
Some
untrue thing we believe walking through our lives;
I’m
not worthy, I’m not lovable, I’m gonna fail.
Whatever
your basic mistaken belief about yourself is,
you
form a personality around.
It’s
the grain of sand in the oyster.”
- Jim Carrey -
In my opinion, not only do we form
our personalities around these ‘mistaken beliefs’, but we also hide our true
selves behind them. Our insecurities can
hold so much power over us that they control who we are and the way we
act. It is the one thing that we all have
in common, a ‘mistaken belief’.
I want to show my models as they
are. They will all have the same circumstances,
making them all equal. I also want my
models to be topless, so they have
nothing to hide behind. I don’t want to
be able to see their eyes in my images.
I want my models to be detached from the viewer to create the feeling
that they are hiding something. I want
these images to show that feeling of vulnerability that we all have inside of
us.
My inspiration for this concept is
mainly my own feelings. My inspiration
for the photographs themselves came from looking at the work of Tom Hoops and
Quentin Arnaud. Using different lighting
techniques, their portraits enabled their models to hide from the viewer.
