Development

20thMarch2014

(Warpaint, Bands Album Cover)

After producing the short film more ideas started to flow based on some of the effects that were available to play with and the sound track I used. I found a piece by Rob Dougan called Clubbed to Death, it starts off quite sweet and soft - which reminded me of swan lake - I thought this concept was perfect, referring back to my  initial proposal, my main idea was to contrast the obvious masculine side of boxing and the hidden feminine side to it, based on agility and balance. I also gained ideas due to an accidental error when producing some mood boards in the primary stages of the project, this idea was then strengthened by a billboard that interested me. The billboard featured an album cover of the band "warpaint," the image depicted was interestingly difficult to define due to an overlapping effect, I thought that the imagery created was elegant and feminine and this may help me to produce an alternative photo shoot. 


Overlapping images is a series of work by Ho-Ryon Lee which consists of several awe-inspiring oil paintings that resemble double exposure photographs. They are based on actual photos taken by the South Korean artist and explore themes such as sensuality, lust and desire. He paint on canvas but the previous process includes the artist taking several photos of the model in specific poses and composing them together via photoshop. The suggestive and dynamic nature of his overlapping images - especially in this case - was highly erotic and competent to make them visually delightful and there seduction and voyeurism revealing the hiding object of desire. 

(Lee, Ho-Ryon. Collection of series of paintings)

(Ariell, Nir. Collection of images from the series "tension")

Nir Ariell is an American photographer who has an iPhone motion capturing breathtaking snapshots of male dancers as they perform arabesques allongé across ethereal spaces. His series entitled, "Tension" combines the intimacy of portraiture with the artful airing of digital photography producing, dizzying images that really celebrate the beauty of the male form. Ariell began his career in one of the most unlikely places - as a photographer for the Israel military, but after his stint in combat he turned to the performing arts focusing on the graceful and bizarre aspects of dancers in motion. Ariell find particular inspiration in movement in male dancers using digital manipulation techniques to turn several contortions into one stunning movement. "In my project I function as a visual choreographer making up certain movement language that is the outcome of a verbal dialogue between photographed dancer and I" he stated to street anatomy. "Working with dances is much more about collaboration. They bring so much into the process. And you know I'm not a dancer and Ive never danced or choreographed, so a lot of instructions that I give a very vague and kind of abstract. I give them descriptions of feelings or atmospheres or just visual descriptions of how I want the movement to be  and they translate it into an actual movement, so their part in the processes is huge. And that's the reason I can't use any dancer, I'm using highly trained and intelligent dancers that are able to do this kind of translation. There are a lot of things that don't need to be said, they understand what I'm trying to get at and they appreciate my work. Photography is all about this one moment, it's all about that decisive glorifying moment and dance is kind of the complete opposite: it has to be about a series of moments. Thinking about how we can create an image that holds the qualities of these two mediums. And that's how we started experimenting with double exposures, because we wanted to bring several mediums into one picture."