Research to develop further with Portrait

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Research

Lee Jeffries heavily influenced how I edited my portraits. I wanted to make it look like the people I chose, looked like they had been through a troubling time. The people that Lee Jeffries photographed were mainly people that were on the streets but he didn’t just photograph these people, he told their story as they matter. This was quite opposite to Harold Knight, the painting of Girl in a White Dress 1896 that I'm responding to. She wasn't important to Knight that's probably why she was unknown.

Whilst researching, I came across this piece of work that had been torn and stitched back together again. I think this would be a powerful message and a good thing to try with my own images. I think this would show care and compassion about the sitter photograph that's been torn and pieced back together again. Another angle is the torn pieces and stitching could be portrayed in another way, like enhancing that emotional distress. I like this openness, as it's ambiguous. The message is once it's torn it will never be the same again no matter how well you put it back together again.



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