For this shoot I planned a surreal approach, I wanted my images to come out looking odd and obstructed yet simple. In my last shoot I enjoyed mixing nature and the modern world together so I wanted to incorporate that into this shoot aswell. To create that in this shoot I wanted a simple plain background and really wanted the model's face to be the main focus of my images. To create the link between nature and material modernism I placed flowery fish net material over half of the model's face. I did this because I wanted it to represent the idea that we as the human race cover ourselves in materilistic things rather than live within nature.

For this shoot I wanted to give my images the same sort of feel that Alec Soth gives to his images. A natural storylike aproach is what I was going for here; I decided to place the model wearing those specific clothes in the woodland location to show the contrast between two different worlds. I really like how this shoot came out because of the high fashion appeal that I think the clothes and the poses create, yet the fine art style technique to the images.

ALEC SOTH

Alec Soth is an American photographer most famous for his 'large-scale American projects featuring the midwestern United States. My favourite collection of his work is Paris/Minnesota, I like how these photos have a documentary feel to them yet they look like fine are pieces. His wokr has been described as having a cinematic feel, I agree with this statement and until I read it I couldn't think of how I would describe his work but this fits it perfectly. When I look at his work I feel like there is a story behind each image.

This is an image from a series of film prints that I did within my exploration of identity. I origionally planned to just take photos of the model in unusual locations dressed in oposite attire for those locations. I wanted to create high contrast and overly textures images. As the shoot went on the model's back became for of a focus. I like the way the bare skin looks agains the bricks and wood. After I had printed the shoot I thought more about the fact that you have never seen your own face you only see refections or photographs; this made me think that is is similar when it comes to your back, you can't physically see that either. I like the way that because she is half naked in a rural outdoors place it makes her vulnerable. I am pleased with how the set of images came out because even though they werent what I origionally planned I think that the accidental meaning is a lot stronger.