Too further expand upon the idea of photographers and their cameras in front of the camera, I asked 3 different people to sit for me, all friends whilst within the studio, allowing for ‘banter’ and personality to show through in the photographs as the others in the studio are distracting from my task at hand, capturing the photographer for who they are.
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As a result of this, many of the photographs are varied and comical while some of the end results are extremely smiley and happy which can be perceived to be more commercial and less about the portrait of who the person truly is. The first contact sheet portrays portraits which are awkward in being unable to create a natural and approachable portrait where the approach to the photographs was unprepared. As the shoot changed sitter, I became more comfortable in the situation with the left contact sheet showing a more relaxed sitter over the energetic photographes produced in the right contact sheet. In some of the images, I purposefully made the sitters laugh as to create a lighter feeling to the photographs however this has produced portraits which have become more stereotypical advertising photographs of still life.
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There is a clear use of inspiration from Martin Schoeller and his Close Up photographs while taking a step back to see more of the person and more of a clinical surrounding that is off-balance that is reminiscent of the work by Bettina von Zwehl. More experimentations with different people create different atmospheres within the photograph as to really get under the skin of a person in a portrait, more time may be needed in order to scratch away the initial appearance.
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