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The Power of the Portrait:
Portraits, Self Portraits and Identity
Experiment with different layouts and designs.
Use black and white and colour, text, illustration, double exposure etc.
Explore Identity
Explore Identity by Destroying the image
Lets get started:
Research the Destroy project by photographer Rankin
LO: By experimenting with photoshop and hand made techniques explore How images can be edited to reflect personality traits.
Respond:
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By talking to your friend come up with a list of at least 5 words that describe your own or their personality.
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Complete a photoshoot inspired by these words.
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Use one image and edit it in 4 different ways to reflect the words you have come up with.
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Give one of the images to the person you took the photo of and get them to edit it in their own way to express one of or a combination of the the words.
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Present your research, photoshoot and experiments in your sketchbook.
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Use these workshops to help you.
Explore Identity by
creating characters
Research Cindy Sherman
LO: By experimenting with creating different characters and backgrounds, explore how identity can be changed using camera and digital techniques.
Respond:
Task 1:
Create a digitally altered
background. Use images of
different places, experiment with double exposure and other techniques. Then create your characters and do a photoshoot in the studio. combine the 2 together.
How does the background link to the character?
Create a magazine cover.
Task 2:
Using actual masks, or make up/face paint, explore how you can change someones identity.
You can make your own masks, if you want to create something specific.
Use close up framing so that the face is large frame.
Task 3:
Re-create a magazine cover.
Create one that is almost a direct copy and then another which changes the expression that wouldn't usually be seen on a magazine cover.
Present the 3 together like these, original, copy, altered.
Explore Environment
Explore Environment through Identifying
Liminal spaces
Research the work of Todd Hido
LO: Using the camera, photograph the empty, in between spaces that we use, like corridors, empty offices, derelict buildings. Identify why these spaces are important and how they link to the concept of liminal spaces.
Respond:
Task 1:
Using the environment around you, do a photoshoot in and around the photography unit.
Look at the way the images have a vintage aesthetic and explore digital techniques n photoshop to re-create this effect with your own images
Task 2:
Identify similar spaces at home and complete another photoshoot.
Explore Environment through collage
Research the work of Joanna Goodman
LO: Using your own images, create either hand manipulated or digital collages that reflect identity and environment.
Respond:
Task 1:
Using the environment around you, do a photoshoot in and around the photography unit of objects, textures, patterns and backgrounds. Combine these with portraits you have taken or new portraits to create a series of collages.
Task 2:
Do a further shoot at home of different patterns textures and objects to develop your ideas further
Consider how the objects, colours and patterns are symbolic of the person or environment they are in.
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