For this task, I was required to do a photoshoot, in which I should create a story in a naturalistic way through my pictures.
As I want fashion photography as my BA, I took a lot of time to think about a story for this photoshoot. The theme of my zine is Self-Knowledge, so there were many ways to approach my theme through images, even though It can be a complex theme to work with as well. So, after a lot of research and brainstorming of ideas, I decided that wanted to use an object to help me create my story and also that I wanted to build a narrative with my images.
Thinking about my theme, I decided to show a little of bit of the feeling and of the energy of how is like to live life. Daily I think about a lot of how my life is going by so fast and that I’m just existing and not doing half of the things that I like to do. So based on that, I started to think about something that a friend of mine told me once. She told me that flowers represent life, so based on that I wanted to tell the story of a girl who receives a bouquet of flowers and how she sees one of the flowers life go by so fast and she is just there, not doing nothing.
As I was in my country (Brazil) for my easter break, I decided to take an advantage of the beautiful locations of my city (Rio de Janeiro). For this photoshoot I went to the beach with my friend who was being the model and my mom who was being the assistant. The pictures ended up coming out really nice and I was able to create very interesting layouts with it.
I did really enjoyed this task, but I think I’m still able to create more conceptual images in the other works that I create for my zine.
Research and Final Work:
Final Work – Used on my ZINE