For this photoshoot I booked out the projector and studio in order to be able to project previous footage I took of the ink experiments. With the ink experiments I dropped food colouring into water and filmed it to make it look like cells/DNA. The footage I captured shows the colours dropping into the water and free flowing into each other and mixing together which I feel like conveys the message I set out to convey, the idea that we are one and no matter our biological science or individual identity, we are all the same, made up of the same cells. I wanted to take this footage and project it onto my model and film her moving around to then be able to take this footage and experiment with editing it in different ways alongside the ink footage to make a fashion film. I feel that for the FMP, alongside narration of different interviews I plan to do with Gen-z and their views on gender, these kind of visuals will work really strong.
These are a select few of the finals I got from the photoshoot. Alongside these photographs I also filmed the photoshoot in order to have footage for a fashion film that I plan to experiment editing with in the final major project. I really love how these turned out and feel that they are really powerful images, I think that with other visuals alongside they will work really well as sets or in a photobook to tell a narrative. I think if I was to shoot this kind of photoshoot again, which I do plan for my FMP, I would like to add in more models to play around with different posing and also try and light the models from the front with studio lighting as these images were only lit up from the projector. I am really pleased with how colourful these previous shoots have turned out to as my main aim for this project is to make a documentary/photobook that’s bright and colourful, aimed at Gen-z, that is a celebration of life and all of humankind.
This is just a quick experiment I did showcasing what a photobook layout could look like using this photoshoot. I was mainly inspired by artist Giseok Cho. Cho uses his work as a way to expand the concept of beauty, with Korean culture in the centre of his imagery, using historical and contemporary references to reinvent photography in dynamic and experimental ways. In a interview he explains that “beauty, to me, comes by harmonising things that are not in harmony. I want to break it down, recombine and process it. Destroy them in various ways, and find my own new beauty.”. Along the theme of opposites, in his series ‘Humanoid’ he explores the topics of nature and technology, looking into their relationship to each other and the connections they have to humans. Cho’s work inspired me both visually and narratively, as within this project i have heavily researched into gender and science and although they are two completely opposites they both have huge influences on each other. I am also inspired by how he uses layouts within his work to convey his themes, for example this image above is from his series humanoid and on one page you have a flower, representing nature. Then when you look to the next page you can see a model styled with wires coming out from them, two completely different subjects for each photo but when put together work in harmony to create a narrative. Throughout this project I have been looking at the idea of gender vs nature as well as binaries so when it came this artist and his workings of visuals it really inspired me.
