Idea

For my photoshoots I will be taking photos of women’s faces. I will be taking inspiration from Barbara Kruger who took portraits and body shots of women and put bold red slogans on top of them images to show that women’s rights in politics are not respected, and the bold red writing represents the anger and consumerism where it looks like the title of a magazine. I will also be using my artist reference of Jenny Holzer who used projections and text in her work to also provide insight on consumerism and feminist activity, where it challenges the roles of traditional women in society and how males can control women.

For my final images I want to have women looking a mixture pf casually and angry at the camera with text over the top of some of my pictures to show the two different types of people I’m representing within my book. I want my final outcome to show the struggles and anger of feminism and consumerism and being a women in our modern generation with social expectations.

Photoshoots

For my first photoshoot I will be taking portraits of women’s faces in the studio with the plain backdrop behind the model so that there are no details in the background of the images. I will be taking pictures with all the lighting techniques that I have learnt like butterfly, Rembrandt, chiaroscuro and just the average portraits with the camera straight in front of the model. I will do photoshoots each with a different model to show my two ideas of feminism and consumerism within the theme of union.

Editing

I will edit my images to be in black and white as I want to make the pictures all the same for both photoshoot. I want my images to be in black and white and some will either be in large bordered writing or large black writing over the images. For the bordered writing I will be using a red border for the feminism aspect of my project. This is because red is a colour that shows anger, strength and passion, its boldness shows that it wants to be seen and heard by the audience, then contrast the bold red writing with the black and white background shows that its not about the image its about the text on top of it.