Camouflage.

Clothing: Rumina Khatun.

Amba.

For a styling workshop.

Mock Vans Advertisement.

The Queen's Tropical Jubilee.

Photography/styling/hair: Me

Make up: Natalie Fox

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and Alina Miloslavskaya 

Genre and Forms.

Genre and Forms

Reblog of 'Claustrophobia'.

Still's from the video.

'Clean'

For an MUA's end of term project she had to produce work from the brief 'Clean', where I helped with the photography side of it. This is our end result:

Photography: Me
Make up/Styling/Hair: Natalie Fox
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'The Real Me?'

‘The Real Me?’ Individual Project 1- The final sequence.

MUA and amazing assistant: Natalie Fox @ http://nataliefoxmua-blog.tumblr.com/ 
Model: Myself.

'Happy clown, Sad clown’

My modern interpretation of the glamour portraits of the 20’s and 30’s. 

MUA: Natalie Fox @ http://nataliefoxmua-blog.tumblr.com/
Assistants: Natalie Fox and Ivory Bella.

The Coronet.

I had the opportunity to go to a free concert essentially at The Coronet in Elephant and Castle, it was the filming for the album chart show. So I got to see Olly Murs, JLS and The Saturdays for free! London Life isn't bad eh. I had never taken photos in a gig environment before and sot he images of Molly from The Saturdays are better than the Olly Murs and JLS photos because they were on last and I was too busy faffing about with settings on my camera, I got it right by the time The Saturdays came on.

‘It’s a London Thing’

The assignment brief for our first group project at LCF.

Proposal: Our idea is inspired by individual, gender and cultural identity, linking to the idea of this being lost in the metropolis that is London. Easily blending in, becoming one number amongst a statistic. From this inspiration we have decided to photograph a mannequin in different crowded scenarions around London, in order to create this effect. We are using a mannequin rather than a model because of its connotations; being emotionless, stripped of an individuality, with no race or religion, acting a blank canvas.

These are a selection of the final 20 images we had to present. They are unedited and taken on 35mm colour transparency film (slide film). They were taken by a mixture of 4 people, including by myself. A mixture of shots, styles and techniques are being shown here.

As well as the 20 photographs we had to produce using 35mm colour transparency film, our group decided to create a video piece documenting our day capturing the general publics reactions and almost giving our mannequin an identity.

AS Critical and Contextual Studies Final Piece.

The Elements.

Each image represents a different element through the pose and the coloured clothing the model is dressed in, and also through the chosen way I decided to weather/manipulate each print.

Fire- fierce pose, red/orange block coloured outfit and distressed by burning the print.

Water- Serene pose, blue outfit and re photographed with water droplets.

Earth- Strong pose, brown outfit, rep photographed smeared with mud.

Wind- Soft pose, White outfit and re photographed with white material over it to slightly block the image representing the way wind is invisible.

The last 2 images, are more examples of my 'fire' experiments as I feel they came out really well and I also liked the effects of these 2 with the combination of the burning and the poses.

AS Critical and Contextual Studies Cont'd

Wind.

AS Critical and Contextual Studies

Alongside my foundation diploma I did last year I undertook AS critical and contextual studies; here are some images which were part of my developments for the exam final piece. The concept was exploring weathering and the elements.

Water.

Claustrophobia.

Claustrophobia.

Images documenting the exhibition piece and how the dual projections are meant to be viewed. This was very important to the piece as I needed the viewing experience to mirror the feelings of the model and becoming a part of the final vision (As stated in the ‘Artist Statement’ below).

(Also these shots were taken just while i was testing it, so thats why the exhibition area looks shitty, it looked great at the exhibition though i promise!!)

Claustrophobia.

My Final Major Project final dual projection piece.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The feelings of awkwardness and discomfort often spur from the things in which we do not understand, fearing the unknown. Embracing this, my work aims to evoke these feelings during the viewing experience through the themes of androgyny and claustrophobia. The idea of an androgynous person subverts traditional gender stereotypes linking to the fear of difference; with my model appearing almost alien through the masking of their identity and the hiding of gender specific features, (Inspiration- The Man Who Fell To Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg and Vanessa Beecroft) exploring contorted body imagery as they experience discomfort through the entrapment in a claustrophobic space. The claustrophobic element is key in the concept and in the viewing experience; the models entrapment represents the closed minded attitudes of hegemonic society in their views towards anything outside cultural norms. Whereas through a mixture of methodology, using traditional photography (Inspiration- Juergen Teller) and modern technology to create a dual projection piece (Inspiration- Jane and Louise Wilson), creates a personal and interactive viewing space for the viewer as they are forced to experience the projections in an enclosed space; the feelings created are raw and genuine as the original feelings of the model are emitted into the viewer. In addition to this the use of traditional film photography adds to the experience creating an almost 'ugly' aesthetic to the projections through the rough and juddery appearance.

Lifeless.