Project 5 Ideas - Portraiture
I have gone through multiple ideas for this project. Originally, I intended to shoot the drag queens that came to campus. I soon realized my constraints and the impracticality of this project, so I shifted gears to something more attainable. I decided that I was interested in showing the gab between the community of Beloit and the Campus of Beloit. I planned to do this by photographing the more “labor” oriented workers at school and then following them into the other parts of their lives. I then realized that the time constraints, I would not be able to fully develop any kind of rapport with the people that I was photographing.
I soon switched total gears, and became interested when I saw the work of Gillian Wearing. I was intrigued by her study of “the self” and thought about studying my own self. I decided that something that is important to me are all of my technological devices. My plan is to portray my dependancy on them with a series of images where my face becomes a mosaic of my separate facial features. In addition, I want to show that the more engrossed we are in our technology, the less human we become. I plan to do this with a progression of photos, the first one being a photo of myself and the last one being a photo of my computer, camera, phone, and ipod all displaying my different facial features, which in turn, compose my whole face.
