Point Of View
Domestic Abuse
After choosing point of view as my main theme, I branched out into the idea of society's point of view. I was mainly interested in views towards women and the way in which they are stereotyped as inferior to men. This led me to relationships and abuse that could lie within them. I wanted to explore domestic abuse and how it could be ignored or overseen in a couple.
Donna Ferrato
After looking at Donna Ferrato's photographs i wanted to experiment myself. I had my model look pained, worthless. I wanted these images to look as if they were taken in the moment. I unsaturated the images I preferred most out of what I took to show it was inspired by Ferrato's work.
Women's Aid - Domestic Violence Campaign by Rankin
Womens aid created a campaign that was making aware and trying to end domestic abuse. These photographs are portrait shots of women with clear bruises and cuts, showing they have been abused. The women in these images are famous or well known. I think the intentions of this is to tell people that domestic abuse could and does happen to anyone even if it is very unexpected.
Abuse - Makeup experimentation
Makeup Progress
After finding the women's aid campaign i wanted to experiment with bruising and cuts through make up. I used lip-liners, eyeliners and eye shadows to get the right shade and blend of colours and I think overall it was successful. I made sure to take progress pictures of the makeup to show the process of this.
After getting used to the use of makeup, i wanted to focus on the rest of the model. First i wanted to make it seem as if my model was dressed up so it looked as if she would be going out while displaying her bruises on her face. Using Photoshop I simply enhanced the colours and contrasts of the make up to make them bolder and create more attention towards them. Also by liquifying parts of the image i used the bloat tool to create some swelling on the face, particularly on the lip and nose to create more of an effect.
In this shoot i attempted to replace where you would typically put makeup with bruises and cuts.