These are two unedited images that I have selected for potentially adding to the final submission. These were taken at a pub in Brighton called The Globe.
The first one I have called The Relationship Status and I staged my two models to be sat having a drink in a social setting. I asked the model on the right to be preoccupied with his phone and asked the model to the left to take an image of her side profile on an Ipad and hold this where her head would be in the image. I wanted this image to depict how the 'status' of this relationship isn't positive due to the presence of technology at this particular moment. There is obviously a lack of communication between the couple (ironically so, as we may assume they may be using technology to communicate with others) and I wanted the female models feelings and emotions to be hidden behind a 'profile picture' that represents the ideal version of herself she would like the online community to see and not her true self.
The second image I have named A Portrait of Pinterest. The model I have used here informed me of her use of the Social Media app, Pinterest, to gather information about make-up. She told me she would look up images of other people's make-up designs to copy on herself. When I asked what she would do once this process was complete, she explained to me she would take a picture of herself and sometimes would upload it to Pinterest herself. I found this discourse to inspire this image. I found images of different features of the face on Pinterest and used three phones to reconstruct the face of the model and then photograph her. I wanted this image to convey how we interact with each other's images online, using the models process as the example. She creates an identity for herself using a mixture of other people's images of themselves.
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