Monday, 21 May 2007

Photography - Reconstruction


In answer to the studio/location brief we have produced a piece in response to the theme of reconstruction.

Our initial aim was to make the viewer question what they are seeing; what the truth is in the picture. We focused on the point of waking where reality and dream merge and the lines between them are unclear. As you wake you have little grasp on what is real and what is fantasy, and your dreams mix with the reality around you as you change from one world to another. We wanted to make the viewer question whether they are looking at dreams or reality.

We photographed on location, constructing an environment as our studio. Through a number of shoots we developed our constructed environment and experimented with lighting to define the different states.

Our final piece conveys a sense of a fractured environment; two distorted worlds, one being reality and the other magical, sureal, and dream like.

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