Doing a summer project is quite daunting having no guidance from the teachers and being able to do anything you want. However, it gives you a real chance to see what gives you inspiration in the big wide world.
I started looking at everyday thing. Something that would catch my eye or intrigue me. I started to look at peoples shoes and how someones shoes can often reflect their personality but sometimes end up surprising you into thinking something completely different. I was acting like a slight stalker taking photos of peoples shoes while they were unaware the best places were trains or the tube. However as i started with this topic shoes, i didn't feel it was going anywhere that i really like and something i wanted to start my second year with.
I decided that I wanted to change my direction and do something that was broad and could be developed easily, what really stuck out for me was then landing in the UK coming from France at night seeing all the towns lit up making intriguing shapes really fascinated me.
This made me think further into looking at light and how it affect many things. From a city to any object an its perception to the viewer. However light by itself it very broad, I felt I needed a real subject matter that I would be interested in and could develop into a project that I would enjoy to see grow as the year went on. As luck would have it I was flicking through a french magazine when I paused at this mesmerising image from the pirelli calendar 2012 done by the photographer Mario Sorrenti. It is a simple black and white image of a model positioned gracefully on a coach like sofa in the middle of the forest with the light shining on her body through the trees creating circular shapes of light on her body.
This was what I was going to look at in my project how the light and dark can affect the female/male figure in many different ways, from photography to fashion to cinematography to textiles to anything really.
