To create a Viveca Koh styled image I wrapped my models face in bandages just as she did to herself. Looking and analysing her image allowed me to realise that there are a lot of steps especially in the editing process that must be done to achieve a similar effect and feel to her image. Having her use of three layered images in mind I focused on taking images in the same position asking my model to face different directions at different times. Doing this gave me the basis for this three piece image. The three face forward and left and right facing images were used to create my first layered image. I then asked my model to portray a sense of entrapment showing that the depression she is experiencing not only suffocates her face but also adds a restriction to her body. Words such as tight and restraint came to mind and became a stimulus for her body language. It was this that created such images as her grabbing her head, screaming and grabbing her body. I felt that these images especially overstated the desperation of getting rid of this feeling that Viveca explains she feels.
After looking through my images I chose ones which I felt would be most compatible with each other for when I start my layering and merging process. For my first image I used very similar positioning to that which Viveca Koh had used creating a very similar image. I then used two of my favourite images from my “expressions of entrapment”selection of images. After decided on the images that I wanted to use I spent time decided what image to use as my pain background. In my image with three layers I used the side view images as a background and just flipped the same image to create both sides. I them cut the middle image out and pasted the layer over the middle of my background image. After a put of colour changing I was able to intertwine the three layers (the tank top in the third layer is clear showing the background layers).
For my two layer image I used a very similar process but changed the opacity and feathered the edges of the second layer to add an apparition effect. I also decided not to centre the image on this photograph leaving room to add text turning a response to Viveca into a campaign photograph.
For my two layer image I used a very similar process but changed the opacity and feathered the edges of the second layer to add an apparition effect. I also decided not to centre the image on this photograph leaving room to add text turning a response to Viveca into a campaign photograph.
Sticking to the style of work that Viveca uses I used editing software to add filters over my image. I was not sure about what effect I wanted to use I however know that I did not want my image to be as edited looking as Viveca’s did, I wanted a more refined look however keeping the same notion of a dark gloomy image. Trying out different filters I was able to choose my favourite. Leaving one image as a photograph I opened my two layer image and began brainstorming different campaign messages to add to it concentration on the issue of mental health.
Even though I thought of the slogan "If it looked like this would you still ignore it" I could not bring myself to adding text to either one of these images. I enjoyed then as a work of art just as Viveca did when she created her images.
I felt that these images focused on the artistry of portraying mental health rather than the effect of being a campaign image. It made me realise that campaign images held high effect where very little or subtle editing tools are used.
The image is all about the representation of a mental illness. Showing what it does to your mind as if it were having the same effects on your body. The main focal points in both images are the repeated figures of my model Charlie with her face bandaged up. I loved how the image represents a sense of entrapment and isolation using something which is associated with the healing of a person.
The editing however gives a sense of surrealism which I feel detracts from the seriousness of a campaign message. The misty cloud effect over the image makes me relate the image to the work of an artistic photographer rather than a campaign photograph.
I felt that these images focused on the artistry of portraying mental health rather than the effect of being a campaign image. It made me realise that campaign images held high effect where very little or subtle editing tools are used.
The image is all about the representation of a mental illness. Showing what it does to your mind as if it were having the same effects on your body. The main focal points in both images are the repeated figures of my model Charlie with her face bandaged up. I loved how the image represents a sense of entrapment and isolation using something which is associated with the healing of a person.
The editing however gives a sense of surrealism which I feel detracts from the seriousness of a campaign message. The misty cloud effect over the image makes me relate the image to the work of an artistic photographer rather than a campaign photograph.