Hidden Beauty

Everyone is different and unique and what better way to capture those elements than portrait photography. Humans are very interesting concepts to capture because everyone of us is different and unique. Portrait Photography encourages excitement and engagement and that is the very aim I want to achieve. There are many elements and feelings that can be generated to be able to create a message.

 

Portrait Photography gives me a voice to be able to express how I feel but also bring out the best in the subject. Everyone adapts the message in their own way. Not only have I discovered this but also an artist called Mehmet Genc (Coughlin, 2017) ​ in his project called You Are Beautiful. He captured before and after photos of women being called beautiful. It had a powerful message that women all over the world smiled in their own unique way. One of the images stood out to me and inspired me to recreate it using participants from different parts of the world that now live in the UK. However, none of them will be the same as each photograph will be adapted to each and everyone’s nuances and mannerisms.

 

By using portrait photography it gives me a chance as an artist to explore and meet new people with different stories to tell and share. It broadens my knowledge and I can be an example to my audience.  For insistence, Mihaela Noroc (Noroc, n.d.) is a 30-year-old travelling photographer from Romania. She is well known for her photography project called The Atlas Of Beauty. She travels around the world to capture women participants in their true nationality and beauty. She posts them on Instagram with a personal message about meeting her participants from her point of view. I want to be able to capture the amazing message she has developed and adapted to be more local.

 

My proposal will be different, as it will be concentrating on the diverse nationalities that are based in the UK. I have recently had a chance to go to a masterclass to learn about and an interactive app called Blippar. Blippar is a smartphone app that interacts with our physical world and turns them into virtual reality. This developed my idea, instead of the photographer describing the experience of meeting with the member, the participant’s themselves can voice their own unique story without losing the mystery of uncovering the eyes. They can share who they are and how they feel about the current events that are happening in our society using only their voices. I can make it interactive to replace the connection that is hidden, the eyes, to learning about the participant’s story to be able to see the beauty within. 

It will be in a gallery as well as an online space and be interactive in both mediums wherever the audience is based.

 

Brining all of these elements together I have created a project that is closed to my heart and I am passionate about bringing to life. After meeting and listening to my participants their stories are waiting to be told to share their Hidden Beauty.