Thursday 4 March 2010



My images are largely going to be self portraits, taken on my Canon450. I shall take atleast 5 a week, if not one a day and upload them most days. I will mostly be the sole subject of my images, but I think there will be occasions where I will include friends/family/boyfriend. This is my first attempt. I am currently listening to a band, Crystal castles, whose prmotional images don't show their faces. I like the mystery this creates and chose to do my first self portrait in this style.


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This self-portrait has been taken with my sister Grace in our bathroom mirror at home. I chose to take this one with my sister as we'd spent the day together and had a really good day. It wasn't taken in any particular style, but I think the pictures the twin sisters in the band The Veronicas are really interesting. I like their contrasting styles and I would love to try out some staged pictures like theirs with props.

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I took this self-portrait in the style of Lee Friedlander, as he has a portrait of himself taken in the mirror as well. You can see it via the link below. I like that this self-portrait shows by body and face, rather than more of one than the other, I think this gives the audience more of an idea what I look like. But I feel there is no real substance to the image. That it does not tell a great story of who I am. I prefer Friedlander's image as the tone from the black and white film looks much softer than the quite high saturation on my digital interpretation.

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This image was taken on the inbuilt web cam on my Dell laptop and it is obvious the picture is not of the highest quality. But I think that the meaning and sentimentality behind the photograph is more evident, so the low quality adds to the kitsch feel. The man in this self-portrait is my boyfriend Ross. I wanted him to feature in one of my images as he is an important part of my life, and I took a candid picture of us both. I haven't seen many portraits in this style myself, but I like Nan Goldin's self-portraits she did with her partners. I hope to re-create soem of her images using colour film soon.

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