Masks and Disguises.

Within my AS photography work I had a project called Masks and Disguises. I chose Antoine D'Agata as one of my photographers to research and focus on. For my artist response I decided to take D’agatas work as my inspiration to produce my motion photographs. Within these images I wanted to show how someones sexuality can be their mask and how it can change them mentally and physically. I made my model wear a lot of make up to show his homosexuality come through within the images but also made him wear a football shirt to show masculinity and his gender. Within my motion photographs I wanted to make the colours very dark but subtle at the same time to reflect what the persons thoughts are like. The colours show confusion, disbelief and unhappiness. I wanted to make my model look as though he is trying to fight off his sexuality and ‘defeat’ his inner demonds which he believes is his sexuality. Within the motion photographs I wanted to make sure that space was not used hugely. This is because I wanted it to once again represents the boys thoughts on his sexuality and make him look trapped and claustrophobic. In response to D’Agata’s images he wants to show people inner thoughts and demons through his photographs (sex, drugs, obsession’s) so with his inspiration I decided to take this matter into my own hands and manipulate it to fit into my project Masks and Disguises.