Hope& Faith
Wikipedia definition
''Hope is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish a desire with anticipation".
''Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness and despair.''
''Faith is belief that is not based on proof. It can also be defined as confidence or trust in a person, thing, deity, view, or in the doctrines or teachings of a religion, as well as confidence based on some degree of warrant. The word faith is often used as a synonym for hope, trust, or belief''
When producing these photographs I thought about the more literal concept of Hope& Faith. I immediately thought of a church and graves as Faith is a strong subject in church. I titled my photographs Hereafter this means what lies ahead, I think this brings in the thought of Hope as most people would consider hope as the feature and hoping that things may or may not happen. Also I thought about other words such as naive and innocent as Faith can be naive and when you are innocent is when you have most of it.
''Hereafter''
Beauty
Wikipedia definition
''For beauty as a characteristic of a person's appearance, see Physical attractiveness. For other uses, see Beauty (disambiguation).''
''Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.''
When I began to think about my interpretation of Beauty I straight away thought about portrait photography. I really like photographing a human subject as they all give off different vibes, expressions, personalities and the moods. In this particular series of images I thought mainly about who I wanted to photograph, I chose my 6 year old cousin Ruby Emily Berry. I didn't prepare or re-style my subject intentionally as I thought that would help to show Ruby's personality and give the image a ''rough look''. I also thought about the way I wanted to present these photographs, I chose to desaturate the images and include a small amount of noise to give the photos a older feel to them. This also helps to show the way I think about the definition of beauty as I find black and white photography very beautiful.
''Ruby Emily Berry''
Distortion
Wikipedia Definition
''Distortion (or warping) is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of something, such as an object, image, sound or waveform. Distortion is usually unwanted, and so engineers strive to eliminate distortion, or minimize it. In some situations, however, distortion may be desirable. The important signal processing operation of heterodyning is based on nonlinear mixing of signals to cause intermodulation. Distortion is also used as a musical effect, particularly with electric guitars.''
Yell Saccani Research
When researching into distortion I found a photography named Yell Saccani I really like the uniqueness of her work and the distortion of all her photos. I have chosen these three images as my favourite as they have started to inspire me in my photography with fashion. I think you could include garments and more fashion based products but still get the same sort of feel to the photograph.
