Brief

Aim:

This studio paper engages with the human form as photographic subject and examines principles of lighting. It also explores the history of representation of the human form, taking in photographic portraiture and approaches to fashion photography along with the central and sometimes controversial history of the nude.


Project Brief:

You are to select a subject (or subjects) of interest and through photographic practice explore the diverse effects of controlled lighting, props and background. You will explore how the mood created can influence the reading of the subject.


Subjects include but are not limited to;

• The performative body 
• The body in fashion 
• The body as site 
• The body as an artwork 
• The contested body 
• The idealized body 
• The political body 
• The body as document 
• The portrait