This flash, i bought years ago. Recently got it out again. Such a good buy.

Im not allowed to say i miss you.

But i do, so i posted it here, so no-one would really know... but so you know that i do.

The The hypnagorgic state.

The hypnagorgic state Is ‘the point before immediately falling asleep’.

1950's Editorial

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Some work I did recently for a fashion student :)

Lamps.

So, so far in my project i have been investigating the absurdity within fashion. So, I began by removing a visual identity of fashion, removing the glamour, well, of what we would imagine glamour to be like, and glamorising the everyday.

The uncanny resemblance to a fashion image, but, yet does not look like a fashion image. The removal of the glamorous idol, being replaced by a mundane everyday objects such as, in this case, a lampshade.

The comedy within the images establishes a feeling of mockery towards the fashion industry. Surely if we are wearing the clothes, they are, or were once, fashionable. For instance, joggers are fashionable to runners. An evening dress of a ridiculous cost would be fashionable to celebrities. As normal individuals, it is glamorous to feel comfortable. The positions the models are in are, as I would describe, between a pose. They are neither posed or un-posed. They are at a point of movement, a natural one, and the images is capturing this movement which is there as a relation to the everyday.

Preliminary new Shoot.

This was the first shoot of this series, there are obviously faults and things wrong with the images which over the course of the imagemaking they will be fixed.

This is an image I feel is quite successful. The idea behind this - Fashion is an absurd way of expression. The way someone dresses i a way of describing their lifestyle. Over the corse of this project I want to experiment with this idea of the absurd and create images based on this first preliminary shoot.

Reading about Rankin.

"Photographs are a fabrication. All the hair and make-up and styling is a kind of fantasy in how the photographer sees the person. We create scenarios and use lighting, backgrounds and retouching to create an image that is heightened. It's not inherently real. But then, what you are looking for in photographs is something within it that tells you something about the person. That's obviously a subjective viewpoint. I guess it's quite arrogant of me to think my subjective viewpoint is reality, but if I see something that's not particularly attractive, I don't try to pull away from that." - Rankin

I live this idea that fashion photographs are a lie and they are just an interpretation recorded as a photograph.