Tag: Masquerades

Part 3Leave a comment

Exercise 3.3 – Masquerades (P.82) – updated

517401 OCA Photography

I re-shot the image to address the deficencies that I had identified in my previous attempt. The main changes were to move from a portrait to a landscape image and to re-position the elements within the frame, moving the sauce bottle to the left of the bowl and the spoon to the right. As I used the same sauce bottle as when I previously shot the images back in April, the sauce bottle is not full and it has the characteristic gunge around the top. To high-light this I removed the cap. I shot the image using a speedlight shot … Continue reading Exercise 3.3 – Masquerades (P.82) – updated

Learning logLeave a comment

Is it ever possible to capture one’s essence in a photograph? (P.79)

517401 OCA Photography

This question is posed at the end of a section examining Nikki S Lee’s Projects, a series where she assumed different personas and took a photographs of herself with other members of her ‘adpoted’ sub-culture. The question is relevant especially as several of the photographers featured in this section chose to adopt new identities within their self-portraits e.g. Trish Morrissey, Gillian Wearing and Nikki S Lee, but it is also true of more conventional self-portraits, what does the viewer see and is this the essence of the individual? At this stage before starting work on assignment three my view is … Continue reading Is it ever possible to capture one’s essence in a photograph? (P.79)

Part 3Leave a comment

Exercise 3.2 – Masquerades – (P.80)

517401 OCA Photography

Is there any sense in which Lee’s work could be considered voyeuristic or even exploitative? Is she commenting on her own identity, the group identity of the people she photographs, or both? In her Projects series Lee decided to explore identity by transforming herself into different characters and then photographing herself in character with people whose appearance she was replicating. I do not think that Lee’s work is exploitative or voyeuristic as by putting herself in the image she is not photographing groups from the outside but is instead engaging with the other subjects in the images. In the photographs … Continue reading Exercise 3.2 – Masquerades – (P.80)