The graduation work I finally presented is to concretize the ‘identity’ I think exists in photography into a real object. Identity can be fragile, changeable, invisible, and also part of the photographer’s inner projection during the shooting process.
I think that during a shooting, the relationship between the model, the camera and the photographer is subtle and indispensable. At the moment when the shutter is pressed, the inner ‘connections’ of the three are projected on a flat photo. I consider this presentation is very precious and memorable. That is the main reason why I am doing this project. The overlap and alternation of ‘projections’ or ‘illusions’ makes them a beautiful unrepeatable artwork or a timeless keepsake of the overlapping identities of the three.
Photography itself is a process in which a ‘hollowed-out shell’ injected into its ‘identity’ by the photographer and then created its second ‘identity’. At the meantime, the subject also itself retains its own identity in this process and does not disappear completely, but is combined with the new photographer’s inner projection.
The presentation of my final work which is realized in a fashionable way of studio shooting. The selection of these props (dragonfly, anthurium and mirror) are fragile, changeable and easy to wither. As far as I am concerned, these objects reflect some characteristics of ‘identity’ to some extent. By using different lighting and clothing to combine with the props, I want to record the product of these ‘projection collisions’ in the most perfect presentation.
The graduation work I finally presented is to concretize the ‘identity’ I think exists in photography into a real object. Identity can be fragile, changeable, invisible, and also part of the photographer’s inner projection during the shooting process.