Concept Phrases

Photographic map of male and female bodies oriented in ways that oppose their sexes.

Gender norms being transformed and blurred by the ways of acceptance and a refreshing eye for beauty.

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For this project I would like to explore the technical uses of a film camera, using the 2-D medium to show the reality of gender norms in today’s society. Using four subjects, two biologically female and two biologically male, I will dress and position the subjects in such a way, with the use of clothing, make-up, and posing, that will blur their gender lines and make them look as if they were of the opposite sex. I will experiment with the use of lighting and staging, as well as the proceeding steps of developing the film.

Image Collage

These images show some of my ideas for lighting, angles, and expressive body language that I would like to emanate in my photo series. I especially would like to focus on poses that explore the range of motion of the body and the extent of its ability to abstract the human form. My lighting and camera positioning will highlight these qualities of the body.

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Action Plan

This up coming weekend, with the help of a friend majoring in photography who is also well versed in film cameras, I will take photos of myself and one of the other subjects to see how the camera works and experiment with posing and lighting. I will then develop this film and see the results, after reviewing the photos I will either move on taking photos of the next two subjects, or photograph all four subjects with information gained from the first set of photos. I am hoping to do everything as soon as possible as I have to take in to account the time to develop the film and then assess whether or not the developed photos demonstrate what I want to show.