11.01.2011 Digital Darkroom SURREALISM

The past few weeks I've been working on an assignment which is titled 'Surreal' and involves using a digital composite to communicate something. I decided to tackle the idea that everyone has a mask they wear in public to hide their personal feelings from the world.

 I tried to physically show the girls 'happy' mask which she'd use to put on a show for the world and how that makes her feel inside. When researching the surrealist movement and the effects it has had on photography I became much more interested in the work of Carmen Freudenthal and Elle Verhagen, whose photographic collaborations are an unconventional approach, exploring the boundaries of fashion photography - sometimes even literally - by working in three dimensions.