Photo Work Thumbnails

As I mentioned previously with the sample double exposure image of Liam, I am going to be doing some photo work using that process. Since the other bodies of work for this portfolio have been in triptych format I am intending to do the same thing with these. The rough sketches show I want to incorporate color as well. I want to do this for symbolic reasons. As I mentioned in a previous post (or was that my paper?), I feel that the media in this country has a great impact on what we fear. For example, issues or incidents that cause maternal fear (sexual abuse of a child, abduction, child abuse, etc.) are often top stories in the media due to our appetite for those types of stories. It is a catch 22; they tell the stories because they hold our attention & we are attentive to these stories because of our fears from constantly hearing these stories.



This was the first set of thumbnails for the photo double exposure work. As you can see, this was before I decided to include me in the white section.



This is too dark but you can see that now I have added myself in to the central image which is, I think, more in keeping with my theme.




For the photo triptychs I want to have 3 images...the red & blue image will be the same image toned either blue or red with Berg toner while the white image will be of me with the child being focused on in that triptych (I have plans for 3, one triptych for each child). Here you can see that the mother in the central work is smiling. This is because I have decided to use the white piece to again show childhood innocence and non-corruption by having Helena & Liam's drawings as the background text component. The red & blue pieces will both have the fear inducing text from newspapers.