For this shoot I went to a garden centre and a garage to fill up my car with petrol, my friends car and a cliff. I managed to get a range of different images with a bunch of different people.

This photoshoot was done in various location such as my car, car park, school, etc, with my friends.

This shoot was done in my garden, on a hot spring day with my best friends and we were drinking some wine and taking some aesthetic photographs. Here are some of them..

I choose the book “F E M A L E” by Jitka Hanzlova. This book has 115 pages with different women with different culture, background and everyone is unique in their own way including the background. It tells a story that everyone has there own little bubble and are just other people in peoples lives. Photography captures’ peoples lives and moments forever. I like this photobook because it tells a story from so many different perspectives and lives. There are younger kids, older women and overall a range of ages which shows the growing up and how people growing up in different generations can affect you as a person. Most people are pulling a straight or sad/mad face which you could say shows the rage and anger some women have to go through because of misogamy an what some men are like. Some women may be scared to leave the house and I think this book represents a lot of women in todays society. I have made some images similar revolving around girlhood and misogyny to try and raise awareness and show people that life can be tough and isn’t perfect. I think that Hanzlova tried to make elements of this in her photobook too.

The book “F E M A L E” by Jitka Hanzlova. Hanzlová grew up in Rokytník, a village in eastern Bohemia. She was initially interested in painting and drawing before discovering photography as an artistic medium in 1983. Inspired by the works of Diane Arbus^[2] and the anonymous portraits of Walker Evans, she undertook her first trip to America in 1986. In 1987 she began studying visual communication at the University of Essen with a focus on photography, which she completed in 1994. In 1989, Stern published her first group of works under the title “Man Calls It School” about a school for asylum seekers.^[3] After the fall of the Wall and the end of the communist regime, she travelled back to her Czech homeland for the first time. I think that she made the female book to raise awareness for women and show people how different we all are, we al need to stick together and be kind to each other. This book is for everyone to view and can change peoples perspectives on life. This book drew me in because it shows people how everyone’s life is so different and we all live in each others life like characters. It sends a message that says you should be kind and look out for everyone because you never know what people are going through at the end of the day, we are all beautiful and perfect in our own special ways.

The book female, its thick and heavy. It smells like an old book and there is a range of different colours. The book has 121 A4 pages that are white with the image in the middle on the right page, they feel smooth and soft with a hard cover on the front and back with a printed image on the front, a white female wearing all black with a coffee in her hand looing blankly at the camera which gives some insight on what the book may be about. The title is red and spaced out with normal font and her name is above the picture which is relevant when it comes to all the images in the book. I think that it tells a story of history, its not just images of loads of different women. its about culture and background. The realisation we all grew up differently and this plays a huge part in our life as women. We are all unique. It has this repeating idea of strength and culutre and this is why I think its about awareness and strength. She’s repeated pretty much everything in the mood and it has the same layout for the whole book which again repents the idea of repation.

Here are some images that I used to experiment with vibrant and black and white colours in Lightroom and photoshop.

I experimented with images in photoshop and here is the out come, with before and after.

I really like these images because there all unique and are all about theme, union and girlhood. Here are some more images that I played around with…

Photobook model and design

My photobook and project – UNION.

I am basing my images and project on girlhoods. I want to show people that anything is possible and girls should unite together and stick together, this is what my whole project is about, with the title girlhood in black writing and the authors name on the back page bottom right in white.

To construct my photobook I am using Lightroom classic, with 20 images all spread out and distributed in its own unique way.

Front cover

I am using a black and white image that spreads across both pages. ( Front and back)

Page 1

This image is a photograph that spreads across the first right hand side page with a white boarder.

Page 2-3

For this page, I am using two side by side images, the one on the left is the normal one and the one on the right is the edited one, I also done this exact same thing with my other edited image.

Page 3-4

For this page I used one image and spread it across the whole page with no white boarder or background colour.

Page 4-5

For this page I used one image and spread it across the whole page with no white boarder or background colour,( same as the last page), however this image is black and white.

Page 5-6

For this page I used one image and spread it across the whole page with no white boarder or background colour.

Page 6-7

For this page, I am using two side by side images, the one on the left is the normal one and the one on the right is the edited one, I also done this exact same thing with my other edited image.

Page 7-8

For this page I used one image and spread it across the whole page with no white boarder or background colour.

Page 8-9

This image is a photograph that spreads across the first right hand side page with no white boarder, the image is in black and white

Page 9-10

For this page, I am using two side by side images, the one on the left is the normal one and the one on the right is the edited one, I also done this exact same thing with my other edited image.

Page 10-11 ( The Last Page)

For this page, the back I used an image that I created on photoshop.

Evaluation

My photobook represents girls and how we should all connect, I wanted to create a book with different style images such as vibrant, black and white,photoshop and natrual real images. i tried to capture every bit of detail withtin girlhood and with editing each image, whether this may be by using different tqchinuqes or just letting the flow go with each image. I am basing my images and project on girlhoods. I want to show people that anything is possible and girls should unite together and stick together, this is what my whole project is about.

I want everyone to see my photobook isn’t just images on a page but they tell a story…. “UNION” we should all stick together and be strong.

For these images I went to various different places, such as Corbiere, my garden, garden centre, car park, mine & my friends car and the beach. I took a range of different images and ill upload some before & after.

Here are some of my favourites images that I developed and edited using light room and Photoshop, with before and after effect so you can see my work and exactly how I tweaked my images.

Image 1 – A3. For this image I used photoshop and cut out the whole background, made it all pink then went in the rubber to tweak any imperfection’s. G1

Image 2 – A5. For this image I used Lightroom to adjust/ tweak any minor issues with the image. I then changed the image into black and white. G2

Image 3 – A4. For this image I also used Lightroom and i included HDR for a better/ vibrant approach. G3

Image 4 – A4. I used Lightroom for this image and tweaked out any imperfections. G3

Image 5 – A5. For this image I used Lightroom to adjust/ tweak any minor issues with the image. I then changed the image into black and white. G2

Image 6 – A4. For this image I used Lightroom too. G3

Image 7 – A3. For this image I used photoshop and got a background and places it behind the two girls. G1

Image 8 – A4. For this image I used Lightroom and HDR. G3

Image 9 – A3. For this image I used photoshop and got a background and places it behind the women. G1

Image 10 – A3. For this image I used photoshop and got a background and places it behind the girls. G1

Image 11 – A5. For this image I used Lightroom to adjust/ tweak any minor issues with the image. I then changed the image into black and white. G2

Here are the tools that I used to create my final images for Lightroom and photoshop.

G= groups the images will be in when mounting.

Introduction

For my final photography project, the theme of Union I’ve decided to merge the idea of feminism and girlhood. I’ve always been inspired by how women and girls are connected to one another and the strength that comes with understanding these connections.

I would like to know more about how we take care of each other, both in our day-to-day lives. I believe that girlhood is beautiful, strong, and complicated, but also often oversimplified or misinterpreted, mostly by men and so I’d like to reach towards the many different layers of what it means to be a girl today as I believe being a girl in todays society is very difficult.

Paragraph one, two & three

I’d like my photography to point to the power of women’s solidarity, how girls are lifting each other up to resist stereotypes, fight for equality and are there for each other. I want to demonstrate that girlhood is not about being “girly” but rather, it’s about claiming your identity, standing up for your friends, and drawing power from the community of other women and girls. The concept of union in this work symbolizes how we, as women, unite to advocate for each other’s voices and experiences which could be for misogyny, rape, assault and many issues women have to deal with today.

I plan to capture true interactions between girls that vulnerability, intimacy, and strength that comes from being together. I want to show the quiet acts of support, as well as the noisier. I also want to employ colour, light, and composition to express the intimacy and solidarity of these relationships, emphasizing the depth of feeling that exists, in some places such as the beach ,bathroom and narrowing down to a school bathroom too.

Cindy Sherman is also one of my biggest inspirations for this project since her work often concerns issues of identity and the performance of femininity and women’s roles. Her self-portraits made me think more about the representation of girls and women in the media and how we can resist those images through our own representation. Like Sherman, I am interested in reclaiming and redefining girlhood and femininity in my images to try and make this die down as women struggle voicing there opinions.

Conclusion

What I try to do through this project is create work that inspires audiences to reflect on the strength of women’s and girls’ solidarity. I’m trying to show that if we support each other and hold each other up, we’re not just stronger but we are unstoppable. I want to represent the depth and power of girlhood and the power that comes from finding common ground in it.