Simone Bramante, an Italy-based surrealist photographer, is noted for his intense use of colour and dreamlike atmospheres he established within his images. My interest in Bramante’s work derives from both this and the gentle nature of a large number of his photographs, similar to Kawauchi’s.

Take the above image for example. Bramante presents a young woman peering through a tear in a wall of thin near-transparent plastic, immediately suggesting surreal ideas of her looking into/out of another world, or that the subject is looking for something. The only portion of the subject we can clearly see in focus is a sliver of her face – an eye, part of an eyebrow, and some blonde hair. The rest of the composition is hidden behind the plastic, blurred by it, but not too blurred to where the viewer can’t make out basic details, such as the colour of her clothes and lipstick – both a bright red – or the rough shape of her face and hair.

In my own work, I want to create a photoshoot that responds similarly to these specific images, of people looking through plastic sheets, nets, etc., and to achieve similar colour palettes to Bramante.