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Week 10-11: Work in Progress Portfolio

Writer: Lucie Nechanická
Lucie Nechanická
Apr 26, 2020
2 min read

This is my project Naked Forms that I will be working on throughout my MA. I consider myself to be a human body admirer. I love the fragility, peculiarity and symmetry of the form. It is my mission as a photographer to portray these features in their natural beauty. In this project I would like to explore five different ways of how to perceive the human body.

1. Distortion: My goal is to use distortion and perspective to present the body from unusual angles and in untraditional ways; For the viewer to absorb its extraordinary beauty and peculiarity. I will achieve it by using a variety of props such as decorations, lighting, camera techniques like long exposure, and positioning of the body or camera to change the shape and proportions of the body.

  • Glasses I
  • Colander I
  • Shadow I
  • Shadow II
  • Glasses II
  • Colander II

2. Patterns and Body: My aim is to show similar patterns between the human body (or its parts) and objects in the world around us; be that man-made or natural. In this way I would like to represent humans as part of their surroundings. I will accomplish it by combining the body with those objects, comparing the visual similarities that connect them.

  • Braid I
  • Hair in the grass
  • Braid II

3. Body Details: My ambition is to capture the peculiarity of each body part. I hope to create an abstract body of work for the viewer to be manipulated by the ambiguity of form. I will position the body into a variety of postures to create curves, skin crease or change of shape. Then I will closely observe it from different perspectives and angles to find the right elements worth capturing as close up shots.

  • Layers
  • Curve
  • Human scale

4. Nature and Environment:

In this set of photographs I would like to portray humans as a fragile entity and show the delicacy and vulnerability of the naked body in contrast or complimentary to the environment. I will achieve it in a variety of places; beautiful and rough landscapes, deep forests or urban suburbs, pretty city parks and hopefully city centres.

  • Amongst the tulips I
  • Amongst the tulips II

5. Body and Identity: My aim is to show what different emotions and atmosphere photographs can evoke by showing the subject’s face; For the viewer to observe the difference between photographs focused just on the body and on subject’s identity. I will achieve it by taking two sets of photographs in a similar setting but with a different approach. In the first set I will focus on the body and its relation to the environment. In the second set I will concentrate on bringing out the subject’s personality.

  • Bedroom
  • Coffee break

It is likely that some of the photos from these themes will overlap as there are very similar elements that connect them. I am also open to take on new themes if something else sparks my interest as the project is developing. There is also a possibility I might get rid of some of these themes mentioned above if I do not see any way how they could progress.

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