STATEMENT OF INTENT

‘Monsters’ Styling experiment

Here is a photo series of the clothes I used to style in my editorial shoots. This was an experimental series as I started off taking photos of the outfits laid down but then as I was laying them down, I noticed that they almost portrayed a sort of ‘monster’ element to them. It was almost like the clothes had their own mind. I kept adding each outfit one by one and ended up with a distorted mis-match of clothes. I felt like this metaphorically portrayed my brain and the colours and textures become abstract.

Scanned patterns & textures of clothes

Here I scanned in some of the clothes I was going to be styling with. I did this to explore the textures and colours of each individual item. I felt like each item had a unique texture and pattern when close up in detail.

35mm Preston Park on film

I decided to take another trip to Preston Park Gardens and use my 35mm camera. I feel that this experimentation was successful, and my film camera has presented these images in a more mystical way. I carried on with taking photographs of what caught my eye and really focused on the detail of each object. This is because I was interested in how I was perceiving things on this day and how certain things were shaped and coloured and how they had changed.

Preston Park

Some of my first initial research was going for a walk around Preston Park Gardens to capture anything that caught my eye. As I went around, I was surprised at how much detail I could see and how intricate every bit of nature was. This inspired me to think about detail, textures and colours within my work. Further on in my work, I have used the flowers to collage as I thought they had interesting patterns and detail.

Dream Diary

In this series of 4 images I have created, I decided to keep a diary of my dreams. This is because I was fascinated with what takes place within the brain when you are sleeping. From these dreams, I then created images in which I thought represented and analysed what had happened in this dream. It is a mix of a hand-drawn picture, Photoshop collage and hand-made collages.

FASHION COMMUNICATION WITH BUSINESS STUDIES

MEGAN BRATHWAITE LONG

Reflections