Francess Wood

Love, love, love this photograph. I found it so inspiring the hidden identity, the simplicity, the eeriness of the black and white image, her being suspended. Just gave me loads of ideas to where I want to go with my final piece.
This image I found to be simple yet effective the blood stain on the floor making you wonder about the story behind the image. The women sitting down naked but clean from blood makes you wonder even more; did she kill someone? Was it from her?
This image is yet again very simple and after researching her and Nan Goldin I have loads of ideas going on in my head:

One of my ideas was to get images of the strong women in my life like my aunt and nan and my mum and collage them together to look like a traditional family portrait.

Another idea was to be in a room but use shadows to hide my face.

The main idea I have was to use a man within my portraits to show how I've been hurt by men but I come out strong. I want to play with the whole prince charming idea and how your search for him can destory you.

Nan Goldin

This is quite a beautiful picture of Nan Goldin it's so natural, calm and peaceful. Compared to the picture bellow where she has been beaten.
When researching this I found out that the person who beat her was her boyfriend, now im not quite sure if it's exactly true but it hit me hard. I've had such bad experiences with men and can relate to some degree, my own aunt had a black eye on her wedding day and my nan had an arranged marriage at 12 years old. Most of my inner scars are male related and I even spoke to Jade about them and gave her goosebumps. It's partly why I want to explore the whole "Prince Charming" view we have with men.
This photo I love the whole calm and natural side to it. Being naked is the most naturalist thing you can do when we are born we're born naked and this picture portrays that. The way the women is laying on the horse seems quite innocent and relaxed while also reminding me of fairy tales and the whole running off into the sunset on a white horse.
This photograph can be seen as quite sexual but I see it as quite romantic. It's as close as a couple can get without sex. Nan Goldin often documented her life by taking pictures of her friends but I'm not sure why this picture was taken. Nan Goldin's photos have influenced me quite alot after researching her felt quite touched and gave me quite a few ideas.

Jo Spence

Jo Spence is a photographer who doctuments her experience of having cancer through photographs. The images can seem a bit shocking to some people because it's a subject that people don't tend to talk about. I particularly like the top image with the collage of photographs I feel it's quite touching.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville I have noticed doesn't do her portraits for beauty but does the complete opposite. She shows her body in unflattering ways.
This portrait I remember from one of my lectures on national diploma and we were told how she did this portrait from a very unflattering angle which makes the women's legs look bigger and her breasts look smaller.

This series of portraits show her distorting her own body reminds me alot of another artist we looked at who hated his body so he distorted it.

self protraits in pen

These portraits I did using pen and water just to use a different media to study my face in. I wanted them to seem quite dark. In this portrait I decided to not use full eyes to make it a lil more uncomfortable to look at.
This portrait was kind of a test piece for an idea I have for a photography portrait. The idea came from wearing your scars on the outside and plastic surgery.

Fairy Tale Identities

As a lil girl you get told about these amazing fairy tales and then you spend your whole life waiting for the prince charming that will never come. Well for my FMP I looked to expose all that and looked at how Cindy Sherman dressed up as certain characters to documented that through photography. I did the same last year and thought I best mention it because this was the most fun I had in a project because I didnt have to be myself I could dress up n play a different role and have fun and I liked not being me for a day. I really enjoy not being recognised by people maybe because I tend to get more compliments when I'm not being me or maybe because I don't feel the need to live up to other people's ideas of me.

Playing with identity

This drawing was meant to be confrontational while hiding my identity as a kind of safety measure. I really enjoy the idea of revealing everything while hiding everything at the same time.
This drawing was supposed to project my identity as much as I could. You cannot recognise me by my hair or face so how would you even know this is me in the portrait?
Here I did some photography work just to explore ideas so they're not done very proffessionallly. Here I was trying to distort my face manually some how while showing a emotion of anger to what they see in the mirror.

These are just two more photos exploring my 1st concept of hiding my identity while showing nothing of myself but leaving everyone to judge for themselves.