Maria Dowsett

Shoot Four: Desolate Dress

This shoot was conceived through all the research above and me needing something I could successfully complete in the midst of lockdown. I liked the Marni images location within the greenery and also liked Eloise Capet’s series where the clothing emulates the bodies form in the wind, I thought they worked well in black and…

My Social Medias and Accounts

After reading up about using Instagram for freelancers and looking at the other photographer’s accounts, this his how mine is currently looking… I decided to make my instagram as a business account and put my profession as photography. This way I can look at my insights which tell me demographics but also when the most…

An Adaption Into Clothing Still Life

Pre lockdown I had completed the three shoots that had focused on mannequins. It had never been my plan to just shoot mannequins and I had already wanted the last few shoots to be something different that could still represent the title ‘absence of body’. Since I wanted to avoid using models for my project…

Getting to Grips with Business and Social Media

My Instagram account has been ever-changing since first year when I made it and I have been uploading and deleting every year since, never picking the images properly or being happy with how it looks. I decided I should probably look at a few websites and learn some ways when it comes to using Instagram…

Shoot Three: In the Studio

For this shoot I wanted to go back to my favourite high contrast, black and white photography, and too my surprise found some brilliant black and white references on the subject. Although none of my research particularly plays around with light, they do feature almost sexualised mannequins, not that that’s surprising from Helmut Newton. Man…

Mannequins in Fashion and Art Reference 3

After seeing the Cecil Beaton exhibition at the NPG I really wanted to do a shoot that used his photographic techniques in some way. I decided to try his multiple exposures and also imitate the high contrast black and white as that’s something I do often anyway. Knowing this I started to research into black…

My Own Website!

Website Link – www.mariadowsett.myportfolio.com I had fun designing my website, the core of it was already done from second year when I had decided the theme already – being the grid of images as the home page and the navigation bar at the side. I decided not to change this as it works well and I…

Shoot Two: Party House

After starting on the mannequin concept and travelling to Seaford to pick up two eBay purchases, I found inspiration in the mass of body parts I had dumped on the stairs after bringing said purchase in from the car. The plastic body parts seemed to fit well in the worn-out student house they were in,…

Mannequins in Fashion and Art Reference 2

Still keeping on the theme of mannequins, I wanted to produce a slightly more down to earth view of what is normally seen as a plastic version of the ‘perfect’ human. I wanted to juxtapose them into a setting where they didn’t look so comfortable like a nice shop window or a showroom. I started…

Researching into Photographer’s Websites

I had already made the starts to my website in second year as part of the specialist pathways module, so all I really needed to do was develop on the skeleton. I had a few old shoots on there that I deleted as they really didn’t show off my best work. I also added the…