Concept

As stated in a previous post, I will be furthering my concept from my dissertation and practice. The concept will be portrayed in a series of images. As this is an ongoing process, the concept may go in a different direction to what I originally wanted to indicate. Any changes or hiccups and why they changed will be logged.

I keep stating my concept over and over, but I know I want to make it very clear what I will be doing, where my idea is, where it will be going and how I will achieve the outcomes.

I also believe it's very important to have a reason behind every idea, and an explanation and plan of what I will be doing in terms of my final outcomes.

Therefore, each shoot will be thoroughly planned and explained beforehand, from the makeup and styling to the location to the concept and how the outcome relates to my overall concept.

In previous posts I was explaining how I was unsure on where my final outcome was going, I wasn’t happy with the experiments I was creating.

So I brainstormed what else I could create.

I was inspired by Peter Lindberghs photographs of Kate Moss. I loved how raw, natural and effortless they looked. I then began to read how his photo’s were unretouched.

This inspired me to propose to support NO BEAUTY RETOUCHING within any of my images.

I felt the collaging and manipulating of the images just wasn’t working for me. I want to show off more makeup skill and felt collaging was taking away from that.

By having no beauty retouching this means, I can really challenge myself on my makeup skill and ensure every detail is right.

Because I’m choosing not to go down the physical manipulation route, I felt my images needed some sort of ‘theme’ or style to link them all together.

I want the styling to be unexpected to your typical beauty and fashion advertisement. I don’t want it to be over retouched like you see in some magazines or over glamourized.

The style of each shoot will be influenced by Androgyny as a way of manipulating the stereotypical perception of a woman's style.

Manipulating, meaning the control of something or someone.