Level 5 photography
Extraordinary

Introduction to Editorial photography
Summer Work

Tutors gave the class homework to get us into what editorial is about and by getting us to understand what editorial means was researching on alec soth. My idea was looking into why people may not get accepted in society and I did this by using a mirror to reflect that her mind that society is making her feel to change her image so that she can blend and not feel alienated, so model looks into mirror to see herself, the side that she should become as to be accepted but her true self is about the background and the one that is looking in mirror. I based the shoots in the room as people's comfort zones is in their personal space a bedroom and the poster on walls shows her personality and how she was brought up on being the person not being accepted in society. Researching Alec Soth has helped me as his project looking for love, given me thought of people changes their clothing and make up styles so that they can love them self which then can move to love someone too and not care on what people thinks on what they wear and what entertainment and music they are into to discriminate.

Alec Soth is an American photographer, his work has a cinematic feel with myth elements that hint a story behind the image. He uses a 8x10 view camera which is slow in setting up, soth finds his shots get quiet and brooding, not enough smiling, not enough expression, just simple, quiet looking and lots of different energy and personality goes into it. "Man shouldn't be able to see his own face- there's nothing more sinister. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart." Fernando Pessoa

Alec Soth is part of the LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM business team that works closely with photographers, writers, and designer which is committed to experimenting with new ways of creating and distributing visual stories.

Looking for Love, 1996 it's a book about searching, about the curious and intuitive approach to people and their stories. About falling in love to a medium that opens insights to worlds that would otherwise stay hidden- intensive and haunting like an continual night at the bar. 

" I like individual images to certainly have a life on their own and to exist in that way, " Alec Soth