This is the WIP for my MA Final Project... following on from the style and theme I created for the last project I wanted to progress the idea of the untruth of images and the perception of the body...
This idea is twofold and circular - 1) it's about women's bodies being put on
an unrealistic pedestal (esp.in the media) by body beautiful actresses, models etc
who've had surgery or who have been airbrushed. 2) it's about the
camera distorting and
not being able to show the truth in a single photograph. This second point
adds the dimension that returns the concept to point no.1...
These images are influenced by Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud and I want them to have an almost painterly quality, playing with the notion that the camera, the photograph, never lies.
This image is a composite of 35 layered images of my lovely cousin Maeve...
