Narrative Video This project sought to capture representations of flowers that were related to human memories and emotions and also find the way to represent my theme in a progressively fashion-related manner. More specifically, my experiment and final photo-shoots focused on framing flowers as objects that can show themes like life-cycle, time-lapse, disintegration, memory and nostalgia. More details explained below:…
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5. Narrative video and photoshoot: Story behind it
In my second narrative photoshoot, I wanted to develop a narrative that would unfold within two different dimensions. The first dimension was one which was established by the first narrative photoshoot that I had done at the beginning of the project. My understanding of my family’s story was not only as the starting point of my project, but also…
4. Editorial photoshoot
In my editorial photo-shoot I decided to show the theme of flowers by my choice of photo-shoot location, which was a greenhouse. I was inspired to do this photo-shoot by my visit to Kew Gardens in London, which was part of the experimentation phase of my project. Because I intended this photo-shoot as an editorial, I chose to work with…
3. Jewellery/Advertorial photoshoot
In my Jewellery/Advertorial photo-shoot I planned to follow binary style of moods as regards the emotional response I seek to generate from the viewers of the photos. However, rather than having a division of light/dark emotions and colours here I intended to explore a new emotional avenue. More specifically, my stylistic mood will be twofold. First, the model I collaborated…
2. Beauty photoshoot
My first beauty photo-shoot was heavily influenced by my experiments with frozen flowers – this can be seen especially in the liquid element which was central in this photo-shoot. The aim here was to explore the capacity of floral colours to invoke and express a wide variety of emotions. I sought to represent this capacity both stylistically and photographically, by…
1. Narrative video and photoshoot: Explanation
In my first photoshoot I wanted to show the inception of my fundamental idea for my project and the source of the inspiration I draw from flowers as a topic of my work. The narrative photoshoot I made attempts to show the centrality of flowers in my family’s history. The video itself illustrates how flowers connect three generations of my…
1. Narrative video and photoshoot: Story behind it
My feelings and choices I have been organising the photo-shoot for a long time and my anticipation was increasing as the day was growing nearer. On the day of the photo-shoot I was full of emotions, but, strangely, I was not feeling anxious. I knew that everyone involved was going to do the right thing at the right moment. Because…
Final work: Rationals and roles
Final work Intentions/Rationales During the experimentation phase of my project I developed several insights and ideas as to how I wanted to represent the theme of flowers and its relationship to human memories and emotions in my work. The central aim of the next phase of my project is to start applying these ideas and insights in the several (fashion)…
Experimentation 11: Beauty photoshoot inspired by Tim Walker’s and Nick Knight’s work
Another creative line I took in investigating the relation between flowers the human face led me to a sequence of photos inspired by Tim Walker’s photo-shoot of Nick Knight, where In Knight poses with a vase of flowers. I attempted to do something similar with a professional photographer (Haris) I have collaborated closely with in the past, and I explained…
Experimentation 10: Beauty photoshoot inspired by Giuseppe Arciboldo Duane Michals work
In my research about artistic representations of flowers I stumbled upon the work of Giuseppe Arciboldo, a sixteenth-century Italian painter. What I found interesting in Arciboldo’s work was his depiction of natural objects – flowers, fruits, vegetables – to illustrate human-like faces. I wanted to experiment on something similar so I researched some more about art that put flowers in…
Experimentation 9: Frozen memories
The previous experiments prompted me to attempt another approach where I froze the flower in a block of ice and then took photographs of the melting flowers. This approach symbolises the longing of people to preserve memories – memories that come to life when looking at flowers. In my work, I identify this quest for preserving memories with a particular…
Experimentation 7: Decomposed flowers 1
In order to also experiment with the idea of flowers in relation to human memory as well as human aging and the process of decay I also used the approaches of fade-out and added-colour but with decomposed flowers.
Experimention 6: Adding emotions 2
I also tried a different colouring process by adding various highlighters in the water in order to achieve a more organic addition of colour.