My intention for this study is to explore how union is presented through the photography technique ‘Surrealism’:

I intend to begin my study with recording my initial ideas of what I believe represents Union. I will create my first photoshoot as an experiment for my future photoshoots, therefore my ideas will be clear. I will also explore different surrealist artists and how they represent unity within their photography. I will be using surrealism in my editing as I feel it is a clear way to present unity through the combining of faces/body parts. The two photographers I will be researching and using for inspiration is Man Ray and Tommy Ingberg. Both photographers explore Surrealism within their photography in completely different ways. Ingberg focuses on self-reflecting surreal photo montages that deal with human nature, feelings and thoughts, whereas Ray’s photography focuses on elements of both abstraction and realism, blending the line between photography and other visual arts. My photos will most likely be more similar to Ray’s photography, as I am using similar techniques to him, for example double/multi exposure and montages of faces or body parts. I wish to develop my project through a range of photoshoots portraying a variation of narratives that represent dream-like images.

I am interested in this project as I like exploring different photography techniques that can be used to make my work unique and fascinating. My intentions are to create a few final images that will be printed and used to create my final presentation on a mountboard, where I can change the layout of the images, making sure they are presented in a clear way. This matters to me because I feel that Surrealism explores the power within the presentation of dreams. Artists find strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny. To edit my photos, I am going to use Adobe photoshop as there is a variety of tools I can use to create dream-like and illusional images.