Monday, January 31, 2011

Non Local Color

Veiled 2011

Non-Local Color

For my first project in digital photography I decided to do a picture of a girl that is scarfed smoking from a water pipe. I choose this concept because I wanted to bring out conflicting thoughts about smoking, being a female and being scarfed female. Does it make a difference what you smoke or who smokes it?

Smoking all together is bad for your health, which is why I used brown tone colors, with dark purple/blue spots which is the smoke color is depicting of what you are doing to your body, lungs in particular. Smoking is a very unhealthy habit, no matter what it is.

I choose to have the girl scarfed because typically when you see a girl scarfed you believe her to have very high morals and not to smoke. In our society for females to smoke many people find that unattractive, which is another factor that played in why I choose a female model.

The red pipe line is a representation for death.

I was inspired by Jill Enfield. I was inspired by her beautiful hand painted photographs. I love the color she uses in her work. Click to link to her work.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Artist Pick


The artist I picked is Lalla Essaydi. Lalla Essaydi is a Moroccan Photographer. Lalla incorporates Islamic calligraphy with henna and 19thcentury poses into her photograph. I really like how she incorporates both types of culture into one image.This image is from her series Les Femmes du Maroc. This series has portraits that portray females in Islamic culture. She tries to show Arab female identities, and shows them being confined to isolated places. The writing on the images are writings from her diary.I really like her work because she fights against this “stereotypical” standards for Arab women. This image is my favorite of all her images; Les Femmes Du Maroc: Harem Beauty #1. I also really enjoy the crisp, clean feeling of the imagery. Also the very limited color in the images, helps bring out her concept better, because it doesn’t distract the viewer from the connotation of the image.For more information about her work here is a websitehttp://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/lalla_essaydi.php