In my endexams project I want to portrait women by putting them in created scenarios, that represent important situations in their lives. I want to work with photography and video as medium.
After I had a talk with one of my docents about my idea (writing personal text and lyrics, chosen by the women, on their body and taking a photo in a certain posture, that should symbolize their attitude towards life - some results are below this text)
I thought back to the basic idea behind this project: portraying women. I decided to start working on a second project as well. On the surface, those new photos should offer an easier way to access their story, the should seem more personal although they are not.
For the original project (below, the photos are not optimized yet, still stains on the ground etc) I already interviewed 14 women - women that I barely knew, women that I call my friends and women that I havent ever seen before and first got to know during the interview.
We kind of interpreted their lives stories with lyrics of songs, parts of books, poems, they can relate to, text they wrote in early diaries. These texts I wrote on their bodies and took photos of a certain pose, that should symbolize their attitude towards life at the moment.
Usually you dont get clear information when first meeting a person, about his or her life, the experiences they made. The thought behind this project was, to make the lifestory visible on the bodies. As if Life really leaves its marks. In German it would be "vom Leben gezeichnet" so why not using "Zeichen" to mark their bodies.
Surprisingly, or maybe not, I found a lot of significant parallels during the interviews and thats why I want to create some sort of allegoric scenarios in the second series, that based on a personal background, still implement a certain universal or general validity.
The selfpicture of women is often very much influenced by the media that surrounds us as well as the way we see and perceive other people. In the photography part of this project, I therefore want to use a kind of "commercial", illustrating style.
I thought back to the basic idea behind this project: portraying women. I decided to start working on a second project as well. On the surface, those new photos should offer an easier way to access their story, the should seem more personal although they are not.
For the original project (below, the photos are not optimized yet, still stains on the ground etc) I already interviewed 14 women - women that I barely knew, women that I call my friends and women that I havent ever seen before and first got to know during the interview.
We kind of interpreted their lives stories with lyrics of songs, parts of books, poems, they can relate to, text they wrote in early diaries. These texts I wrote on their bodies and took photos of a certain pose, that should symbolize their attitude towards life at the moment.
Usually you dont get clear information when first meeting a person, about his or her life, the experiences they made. The thought behind this project was, to make the lifestory visible on the bodies. As if Life really leaves its marks. In German it would be "vom Leben gezeichnet" so why not using "Zeichen" to mark their bodies.
Surprisingly, or maybe not, I found a lot of significant parallels during the interviews and thats why I want to create some sort of allegoric scenarios in the second series, that based on a personal background, still implement a certain universal or general validity.
The selfpicture of women is often very much influenced by the media that surrounds us as well as the way we see and perceive other people. In the photography part of this project, I therefore want to use a kind of "commercial", illustrating style.
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