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To  what  extent  can  I  manipulate  my  own  appearance    and  s6ll  present  an  image  that  can  

s6ll  be  classed  as  a  portrait  of  myself.  

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Cris6na  Otero  cap6vates  us  with  these  zoomed-­‐in  self-­‐portraits.  Using  fruit  as  her  inspira6on  in  this  series  en6tled  TuA  FruA,    

Caryn  Drexl’  kiss  of  death’  

Ryan  Michael  Kelly  ‘miss  behave’  

Alex  Lucka  

           Dimtri  daniloff  

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Cris6na  Otero      

Cris6na  Otero  has  amazed  viewers  with    zoomed-­‐in  self-­‐portraits.  Using  fruit  as  her  inspira6on  in  this  series  en6tled  TuA  FruA.  This  series  of  photographs  is  based  on  make  up  and  ordinary  and  tropical  fruit,  the  colours  that  she  uses  with  the  make  up  helps  bring  out  the  over  all  colour  of  the  fruit  making  it  more  intense  and  vibrant.    She  has  taken  very  close  up  portraits  f  mainly  eyes  and  mouth.  With  a  plain  background  and  in  a  well  lit  studio.  The  photographs  look  flawless  and  nothing  appears  to  be  out  of  place.    Otero’s  photographs  are  very  bright,  happy  and  cheerful  .  The  portraits  themselves  may  seem  too  perfect  for  some  people  and  wouldn’t  be  what  they  like  even  though  that  the  subject  maRer  is  very  unusual  and  work  well  with  the  pale  flawless  skin.  The  viewers  may  mistake  this  as  a  computer  

pain6ng  and  not  a  photograph    

I  like  how  perfect  the  photograph  looks  I  will  try  to  use    sweets  and  crystals  to  try  and  create  something  that  looks  so  perfect  and  flawless.  I  also  like  the  way  the  colour  of  the  fruit    is  one  

of  the  main  focuses  of  the  photograph.  

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Dimitri  Daniloff    

Damiloff  was  originally  aspiring  to  be  a  mathema6cian,  however  when  he  was  26  years  old  he  got  a  camera  as  a  giU  and  from  then  on  his  intui6on  has  taken  over  and  he  has  become  a  photographer  with  a  wide  range  of  focus  points  from  magazine  adver6sement  and  editorials  to  mostly  photo  edited  photography.’’  My  main  

inspira+on  comes  from  my  intui+on.  I  just  need  to  do  what  I  do.  I  like  to  mix  new  graphic  technology  with  my  obsessions.  I  like  to  work  around  the  idea  of    body  mo+on  /  sculpture  the  confusion  between  male  and  female  

and  hidden  weaknesses.’’  Damiloff  in  a  lot  of  his  photographs  uses  models  just  as  if  they  were  mannequins  that  could  be  posi6oned  in  any  way  that  he  thinks  is  best.    A  few  of  his  photography  projects  have  an  atmospheric  feeling  of  everything  being  fake  and  plas6c  that  gives  an  inorganic  feel  to  it.  Those  photographs  appear  dead  and  without  any  model  emo6on  which  also  makes  the  photographs  cold  and  in  some  ways  dull.  In  some  of  his  work  he  

highlights  the  body  conscious  areas  of  the  model  by  making  it  the  focus  of  aRen6on  by  adding  different  things  on  to  it  like  gliRer  or  confeA.  

   I  want  to  try  and  recreate  the  similar  feeling  of  fake  posi6oned  photographs  where  my  portraits  don’t  look  natural  and  are  to  edited.  I  will  use    crystals  to  exaggerate      the  areas  of  my  face  that  I  consider  to  be  not  

perfect  and  by  adding  crystals  make  them  more  beau6ful  even  though  I  had  to  add  to  the  natural  beauty  to  make  it    look  nicer  than  they  were  before.  

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In  this  set  of  photographs  I  was  exploring  self  portraits  while  making  them  look  sweet  and  innocent  .  I  was  using  different  objects  that  I  think  are  beau6ful  and  sweet  such  as  sweets  and  rhinestones.  i  was  inspired  by  a  fashion  photographer  Dimitri  Daniloff  who  covered  the  models  faces  in  different  gems  to  make  the  photographs  look  more  high  end  and  unusual.  However  I  wanted  to  instead  of  making  the  photographs  look  unusual  I  was  aiming  for  a  beau6ful  innocent  look,  that  the  white  

gems  create  sprinkled  all  over  the  face.    

I  also  looked  at  a  young  photographer  Cris6na  Otero,  she  was  using  different  kinds  of  fruits  to  be  the  main  inspira6on  of  the  make  up  in  her  self  portraits.  I  was  inspired  by  the  colours  that  Otero’s  

photographs  had,  the  colour  of  the  fruit  made  the  whole  photograph  pop  and  come  to  life.  I  was  aiming  to  achieve  the  same  effect  by  using  different  kinds  of  bright  sweets  instead  of  fruit.  By  using  sweets  I'm  keeping  in  with  the  sugar  coated  portrait  look  with  having  loads  of  objects  covering  my  

face  that  everyone  likes.    

AUer  I  finished  the  idea  I  think  that  the  photographs  all  turned  out  good  apart  for  a  few  that  didn’t  have  good  composi6on  because  the  glue  that  I  used  to  s6ck  on  the  sweets  didn’t  work  which  meant  

I  had  to  lay  down  and  put  sweets  on  parts  of  the  face  that  were  the  flaRest.  However  the  photographs  with  the  gems  were  by  far  the  best  because  the  gems  stuck  to  my  skin  and  I  was  able  

to  posi6on  them  were  I  wanted  in  order  to  achieve  the  maximum  affect.      

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Marcel  Van  der  Vlugt  

Meg  Wachter    

Pich  Urdaneta    Koen  Hauser    

Alison  Brady     Elene  Usdin  ‘  la  chambre’  

Lilya  Corneli  ‘  coccon’  

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Pich  Urdaneta      

Pich  Urdaneta  is  an  Venezuelan  photographer  who    mostly  photographs  people  in  different  environments  with  out  of  the  ordinary  objects  with  in  a  studio,  he  has  done  a  series  of  photographs  to  depict  the  rela6onship  that  people  have  between  food.  In  those  photographs  he  has  the  models  faces  

covered  in  different  food  items  some  that  could  be  found  in  the  fridge  and  some  that  are  very  disgus6ng  but  are  edible.    For  the  ‘the  fridge’  series  he  quotes  ‘;  we  are  the  same…  we  are  food’  he  is  comparing  us  to  nature  and  that  we  are  in  the  food  chain    even  though  we  are  at  the  top  there  are  s6ll  

animals  and  even  humans  that  eat  human  flesh.    His  photographs  have  a  plain  background  and  are  very  well  lit  to  show  off  the  maximum  effect  and  

detail,  the  models  are  different  shapes  and  sizes  which  shows  that  there  is  no  excep6on  we  are  s6ll  part  of  the  food  chain.  

I  have  been  inspired  by  Urdaneta’s    photographs  and  how  focused  they  are  on  just  the  model  with  food  that  I  have  decided  to  try  and  achieve  similar  simplicity  with  a  twist  by  photographing  the  images  in  front  of  different  backgrounds  and  then  edi6ng  them  to  over  exaggerate  the  key  points  that  are  

disgus6ng  to  get  a  stronger  response  from  the  viewers.  I  will  try  different  Photoshop  techniques  to  achieve  gruesome  photographs  that  challenge  the  viewers  

comfort  levels    

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Evalua6on    

AUer  I  have  taken  and  edited  photographs  with  different  food  items  on  my  face  to  try  and  get  a  reac6on  from  the  viewer  ,  I  realized  that  I  need  to  go  and  explore  different  objects  on  face  to  get  different  reac6ons.  Layering  the  photographs  created  a  new  portrait  that  looked  even  more  disgus6ng  than  before.  I  think  that  

making  the  photographs  highly  contrasted  and  layered  allowed  me  to  achieve  a  beRer  effect.    

I  also  no6ced  that  the  portraits  like  more  scary  and  gruesome  when  they  were  in  black  and  white  rather  than  in  colour.  That’s  why  my  developmental  portraits  are  all  in  black  and  white.  I  also  had  to  saturate  the  colours  of  some  portraits  while  keeping  the  light  to  the  minimum  to  the  the  muddy    zombie  like  look  that  I  

was  going  for.    

 I  think  I  made  the  photographs  have  the  similar  atmosphere  to  the  photographer  I  was  inspired  by  who  is  Pich  Urdanet,  in  some  of  my  photographs  I  have  kept  them  in  coloured  and  just  lightly  edited  the  skin  to  make  it  look  flawless  and  so  that  all  the  focus  of  the  viewer  would  be  on  the  food  that’s  on  my  face.    

If  I  was  to  do  the  same  set  of  photographs  again  I  think  I  would  take  more  6me  with  selec6ng  my  foods  and  also  I  would  have  done  my  make  up  to  compliment  the  food  rather  than  just  having  minimalis6c  make  up.  I  

think  that  if  the  make  up  was  done  to  match  the  food  the  photographs  would  have  turned  out  more  interes6ng  and  each  thing  would  have  complimented  each  other  perfectly.    

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Robert  Mapplethorpe    

Ren  Hang  

Joshua  Hoffine    

Photographer:  unknown    Title  :  save  the  children    

Nan  Goldin    Andres  Serrano,  Fatal  Meningi6s,  1992,

   

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Joshua  Hoffine    Joshua  Hoffile  quotes”  horror  allows  us  to  express  repressed  feelings  ,such  as  terror  and  rage.  Horror  constructs  an  

environment  where  these  taboo  feelings  are  sanc6oned”    -­‐  interview  with  Sublime  Rush  2008  “    Horror  films  are  modern  fairytales”  -­‐  interview  with  Whiskey  Greg,2009    

 Hoffile  hid  his  horror  photographs  for  years  and  con6nued  doing  wedding  photographs  and  CD  covers.  In  his  horror  

series  he  explored  childhood  fears    and  how  they  van  be  illustrated  in  an  innova6ve  and  unique  way.  Hoffile    in  some  of  his  photographs  reenacts  the  scenes  from  childhood  stories  and  fairytales,  however  some  of  the  photographs  move  away  from  childhood  fears  and  looks  at  teenagers  and  adults  fears  because  they  are  more  graphical  and  they  have  no  

childhood  symbolism.  Hoffine’s    photographs  appear  to  be  extra  clean  and  everything  is  in  its  place  I  get  the  feeling  hat  even  the  emo6on  is  staged,  it  doesn't’t  look  natural  but  fake.  I  think  that  the  subject  maRer  has  a  horror  impact  on  the  viewer  however  the    models  expressions  could  be  less  fake.  The  vibrant  colours  of  all  the  images  suggests  to  me  that    the  monsters  in  the  

images  are  the  ones  that  live  under  the  bed,  they  are  always  there  but  out  of  sight  and  the    child  or  adult  can  get  on  with  their  life  as  normal  even  though  the  fear  could  come  back  when  ever  it  pleases  it  creeps  up  to  the  people  when  they  

least  expect  it  .    I  will  try  to  make  my  photographs  clean  and  focused  on  t  he  horror  part,  make  it  the  main  focus  of  the  photograph.  

However  I  will  try  to  use  less  bright  and  a  smaller  range  of  colours  because  I  believe  that  the  very  colourful  photographs  in  Joshua  Hoffile’s  series  don’t  live  up  to  the  expecta6ons.  

     

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Ren  Hang    

Ren  Hang  is  a  photographer,  poet  and  a  magazine  editor.  His  work  has  been  displayed  widely  in  china  and  other  countries  around  the  world.    Hang’s  photography  style  is  

unusual  and  shocking  because  of  his  chosen  object  maRer.    His  photography  challenges  the  boundaries  of  taste  and  boundaries  in  genera6ons  because  the  new  genera6on  may  see  his  photographs  as  art,  however  the  older  genera6on  may  see  it  as  inappropriate  and  say  that  it  shouldn't’t  be  displayed  or  classed  as  art.  I  think  that  Hang  photographs  things  that  are  unusual  and  disturbing  but,  they  are  also  things  that  everyone  is  familiar  with.  This  means  that  it  shouldn't’t  be  a  surprise  to  us  the  viewers  seeing  pictures  of  those  

things.  Hang  also  combines  body  parts  and  other  everyday  objects  to  try  ad  achieve  a  shock  

reac6on  from  the  viewer.    I  have  been  inspired  to  create  my  own  disgus6ng  photographs  by  how  Hang  has  achieved  

such  shocking  photographs  in  such  a  simple  way.  I  will;  try  and  replicate  that  by  combining  photographs  of  different  portraits  with  different  or  similar  subject  maRer  to  create  something  that  is  familiar  but  also  disgus6ng  and  doesn’t  look  eye  pleasing  and  

tasteful.  

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Evalua6on    

For  my  second  set  of  exploring  self  portraits  I  used  food  to  create  gruesome  looking  self  portraits,  in  this  set  I    took  a  more  developed  approach  by  having  a  costume  and  a  theme  with  contact  lenses  that  made  the  look  more  scary.  I  was  inspired  by  a  set  called  ‘childhood  fears’  by  Joshua  Hoffine.  Hoffine  explored  different  fears  that  children  grew  up  with  and  then  he  went  on  exploring  adult  fears.  I  was  amazed  with  

the  graphic  photographs  that  he  created  while  s6ll  having  a  normal  everyday    scene.    

This  set  of  photographs  relate  to  the  fear  of  the  undead  which  most  people  are  scared  off  that’s  why  I  think  that  photographs  are  stronger  and  are  more  symbolic  than  the  first  set  with  more  development  and  though  that  is  behind  the  idea.  I  had  to  get  the  studio  ligh6ng  perfect  to  create  a  horror  film  feel  .  Most  of  the  photographs  are  underexposed  with  strong  shadows  to  achieve  the  depth    and  contrast  

that  I  was  aiming  for.    

Even  though  I  think  these  photographs  were  a  success  I  think  that  if  I  had  more  6me  and  more  props  I  would  have  aRempted  to  do  more  fears  that  adults  may  have,  because  I  think  there  are  more  

unexplored  fears    that  are  unusual    and  s6ll  scary.  Similarly  if  I  was  to  do  the  set  of  photographs  again  I  think  I  would  explore  more  than  one  fear  and  maybe  have  a  beRer  background  to  create  a  scarier  

atmosphere.    

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Final    Outcomes  for  the  project    

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Evalua6on      

I  have  explored  different  objects  on  my  face  to  enhance  the  atmosphere  of  my  portraits.  I  also  wanted  to  try  and  surprise  the  viewers  by  pushing  the  boundaries    of    taste  from  the  disgus6ng  site  to  the  too  perfect  and  sweet  side.  I  was  inspired  by  different  portrait  photographers  and  their  techniques  ,  however  I  wanted  to  explore  different  camera  seAngs  and  ligh6ng  

to  make  my  photographs  more  interes6ng  and  unusual.    AUer  I  have  done  the  food  on  my  face  I  decided  to  explore  different  objects  that  would  make  the  photographs  appear  more  scary  and  that  also  explored  fear.  I  was  inspired  to  explore  the  fear  factor  by  the  photographer  Joshua  Hoffine,  who  had  done  numerous  series  on  different  fears  that  children  and  adults  have.  I  liked  how  he  placed  the  scary  factor  in  everyday  places  that  most  people  would  think  twice  about  it  being  associated    with  that  par6cular  fear.    I  think  that  my  zombie  like  

portraits  have  achieved  a  similar  feel  to  Hoffine’s  photographs.  AUer  all  the  disgus6ng  photographs  I  decided  to  show  the  too  perfect  side  where  everything  was  sweet  and  covered  in  

preRy  diamonds  and  crystals.  I  was  inspired  to  do  the  fruit  portraits  by  Cris6na  Otero    Who  did  the  tuA  fruA  self  portraits.  I  liked  the  colourful  contrast  between  her  make  up  and  the  fruit  that  she  was  using,  I  decided  to  try  and  replicate  that  with  different  kinds  of  colourful  sweets  but  without  the  make  up  because  I  wanted  my  face  

to  be  a  plain  canvas  for  the  different  sweets.  I  think  that  I  should  have  added  just  a  bit  of  make  up  to  match  the  sweets  because  in  some  photographs  that  would  have  complimented  the  colour  of  the  different  sweets.  

My  last  set  of  portrait  photographs  were  with  small  crystals  struck  around  my  face  to  bring  out  my  strongest  features  such  as  the  jawline  ,  lips  and  eyes  and  areas  that  I'm  not  comfortable  in  highligh6ng    I  wanted  to  try  and  match  the  photographs  of  Dimitri  Daniloff  who  liked  exploring  different  areas  of  the  human  body  and  show  off  the  hidden  weaknesses  within  the  model.  I  think  that  the  small  crystals  worked  well  to  aRract  aRen6on  to  areas  of  the  face  that  some  people  hide  behind  

make  up,  the  crystals  expose  the  true  beauty  because  they  were  applied  in  those  places  to  aRracted  aRen6on  to  the  areas  I'm  not  comfortable  in  highligh6ng.  I  think  that  the  photographs  turned  out  very  well  and  I  like  the  effect  that  I  achieved  using  Photoshop  to  enhance  the  colours  of  the  photographs  to  bring  out  the  crystals  and  make  them  stand  out  more.  

 When  I  have  explored  both  sides  of  portraits  the  disgus6ng  and  too  perfect  sides  I  have  come  to  a  conclusion  that  

manipula6on  the  face  with  things  that  people  don’t  like  such  as  porridge,  oil  will  make  them  react  to  it  more  stronger  compared  to  if  the  face  was  covered  in  sweets.  Also  when  I  made  my  face  into  something  that  most  people  are  scared  off  their  reac6on  is  also  stronger.  However  the  zombie  look  didn’t  shock  them  as  much  as  food  therefore  I  think  that  to  get  a  

reac6on  from  a  viewer  food  should  be  used  in  an  unusual  way.