Final Shoot
Keeping along with the same themes as explored before but incorporating a new element to focus on, we formed the basis of our next shoot. “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger has influenced this shoot because the text struck me and my partner very hardly initially, we were shocked at how Berger described women before realised that this wasn’t his opinion, it subtly was a fact that we refused to acknowledge yet related very strongly to. With elements of watching yourself and themes of having to wear a mask and cover who you are because of the way men view and how you are represented to them without even doing something. This allowed us to continue with our acetate as a mask idea with illustration inspired by the playful qualities of Charles Jeffrey’s work as well as the concept influenced by Berger and the style o the natural lighting creating a beautiful abstract glare on the camera inspired by Petra Collins and her softer style of photography.
The styling was influenced by Moschino’s September 2016 collection which was showing underwear as outerwear, not by wearing underwear on it’s own or layering it over clothing, but by creating garments where the underwear was sewn carefully and placed on the outside, giving a very intimate and delicate styling approach. We took inspiration from this and literally placed underwear over the top of my clothing to create the same effect. We liked how this gave a similar effect as shooting a photograph of a woman in her underwear but this way the image isn’t sexualised in the slightest and therefore we have control on how the viewer is viewing the person in the image.
Other styling approaches that we used were inspired by Tatiana Cinquino who uses the same sort of colour pallet we did, the pinks and deep colours while balancing it with whites and muted shades as well as lots of layering and balancing structured styles with non structured styles; hence why we paired the heavy checkered skirt with the button up, long shirt as well as Nicole Vernon (both of these stylists from the new generation magazines that inspired us; Contributor Magazine and Teeth Magazine) who uses a lot of flowy and delicate clothes as well as some with harsher styles like rips and tears which is why we paired the bralet with the top with the holes over it and the colours she uses are fully neutrals too.
