Post on 06-Aug-2015
My Photographers: Eugenia Loli
• The artist I will focus most of my work on is Eugenia Loli• Loli creates modern vintage collages wit meanings behind them
which she does by setting them on a narrative scene as if there was something more to the picture than that’s presented
• She describes some of her work to be witty or sarcastic and others horrific with a sense of danger or urgency where as the rest are “chill”
• She makes her collages by finding an image to base he collages on and then builds upon it. sometimes she doesn’t have a concrete idea of what her final image is going to looks like. After “a lot of juxtaposing”, sometimes the base image might not even be part of the final composition
My Photographers: Christopher Bucklow
• My work will be will also be influenced by Christopher Bucklow
• Bucklow is a “cameraless” photographer
• In his series “Guests”, he creates one-off, life-size portraits using a pinhole camera
My Background
• I wanted my backgrounds to be personal to me• My parents are both from Asia: my mother from
Malaysia and my father from India• I also visit Greece and Ghana on holidays and hold
special memories for me and my family
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• To do so, I found a picture of a of a galaxy on Google and used it as a background on Photoshop
• On top on this, I layered a picture of myself I had taken earlier and used the magnetic lasso tool to select my face
• When I had marching ants, I deleted the selected area of the layer to reveal the galaxy underneath
• I then selected both the background and the layer and used the magnetic lasso tool to select my whole body and the, with the move tool, I dragged the image onto my backgrounds
My Foreground
• In the foreground of my images, I wanted people looking at me similar to how Eugenia Loli had in her collages
• I used celebrities I look up to or have grown up with well as photographing friends interacting with the image
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• The images I used for my foreground are celebrities I have grown up with.
• I have also used my friends in the foreground
My Final Piece: 1
I have chosen this composition becauseit is the most similar to Loli's work. This is because I have started with a base image and have incorporated other images to create some sort of story. The figure seems to be coming out of the water and the figures in the foreground seem to be looking at it. Also, in the background I have the taj mahal as if it is in the distance although the base image is of Malaysia. I think this is a good self portrait because it includes very personal subjects as well of convey my Asian background.