In this post I will brainstorm a couple of ideas for my final photography project. My initial idea is to work with mirror and reflection. One of my main references for this project is artists such as Matthew Morrocco and Loriental (Pierre-Emmanuel). Recently, I have been fascinated with mirror and its philosophical implications: it is a reflection of a person or object identity and a literal reflection of what we see and our point of view about the moment. I first have this idea reading a Portuguese writer, who says: “Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are" ( Pessoa, 1982, The book of Disquiet, p 76). Those words resonated in my mind and leaded me to a critical reflection about the way I see the world, and how much of it is absolute or just a personal and sometimes distorted point of view. Furthermore, for my final work I would like to create a metaphor based on recent readings. Lately, I have been interesting in Occidental philosophies/religions such as Buddhism and Taoism. Those philosophical currents have been helping me to deconstruct misconceptions, discovery more about myself, clarifying problems and bringing me self awareness and accepting who I am. So that I intend to express the outcomes of my personal learning experience in a metaphorical and artistic way.
The mirror in fact seemed to be the perfect object to carry these project out. Consequently, I looked for photographers and I found Matthew Morrocco. So on this post I will also be analyzing and evaluating one of his portraits from the series Mirror Portraits ( Marrocco, 2020).
According to Marrocco (2020) the project main focus is create a culture as a whole, rather than just one individual's identity. His work confirm my thoughts about the powerful relation between mirrors and identity( personal or collective). When it comes to composition I have different ideas in mind. The high key and saturated colors and the amount of mirrors will contrast with my final composition which I visualize as dark and dead. On my final work I do not intend to use a round and harmonious mirror, instead I would like to use something sharp and explore edges to create triangles in the composition and also convey the feeling of order and confrontation. Another aspect that cast my attention about that portrait is the position of the model almost frontal. On my work I intend to photography the model backwards, with his back pointed to the camera looking the mirror.
References:
ABEL-HIRSCH, H. (2020). Matthew Morrocco’s multi-layered Mirror Portraits - 1854 Photography. [online] www.1854.photography. Available at: https://www.1854.photography/2020/07/matthew-morroccos-multi-layered-mirror-portraits/ [Accessed 13 Feb. 2024].
Pessoa, F., Jerónimo Pizarro and Margaret Jull Costa (2018). The book of disquiet. London: Serpent’s Tail.
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