Shoot 6 - Difference - Work Record

Date: 22/03/16

Plans for shoot:
In my previous shoots on anxiety, I have only represented the illness rather than the actual person aswell. So in this shoot I am going to use makeup on half of her face to represent the anxiety and the other half will be just her as she naturally is. I will also draw a line in eyeliner down her face to make the half and half idea very clear.

What I wish to achieve:
I want to get pictures that portray a sense of difference between the person and their illness. I want the pictures to show a sort of captivating beauty that is in the natural half. But I want there to still be the sorrow in her expression, to show how its overpowering her identity.

What I actually achieved:

I wanted this picture, to very clearly show the difference, almost like she is going through an inner battle so her anxieties don't take over who she is. I used the liquify tool in photoshop to distort one half of her face to make it so abstract and quite surreal. I also like the way on the 'normal' side of her face, her expression is very minimalistic and dead pan, however her eye is very captivating I think and I think I have captured a sense of inner pain and suffering from her.

This picture shows clearly how I used the makeup  on her. I have put red smudged lip stick on her and black eyeliner smudged down her face. I also dripped water down on from her eye to make the black eye makeup smudge to make it look like she has been crying. This also shows the purity of the other side of her side to capture that contrast. I kept this image in colour so we could still see the red smudges and see the effect that the black has.




What I am going to do next:
I have found that a common thread in my anxiety shoots has been the idea of identity. So in my next shoots, I will focus and develop on that theme. My next shoot will be named 'Lost identity' and I will try and capture pictures that show how sufferers, feel like they are loosing themselves. When I researched Edward Honaker's depression work, it inspired this idea of identity and I may try and take some pictures in his style.