The project of human figure includes disorientated photographs of people. This could be either someone moving or stood still. However this project works through the photo-shop side of it not just through the image that has been taken. The quality of the image all depends on how you edit it or what it is of. To start off the theme of ‘human figure’ I will begin to use dispersion which can change the look of the image that has been taken, completely. It can change the direction of the movement and it can change what the image looks like as a whole.
To create this dispersion look, I use an app on my phone called PicsArt. Below is a video demonstration of how i accomplished this.
Even though this is a use of dispersion, I don’t think that it is the best use of it. This is because the pictures I have used above weren’t taken for the purpose of Human Figure or to be edited using dispersion. To change this, and make this better, I will take more ‘professional’ pictures for the use of this theme.
Inspiration
I was inspired to base my GCSE project on 'Human Figure' by a few images that I found on pinterest and the artists that made these images. Below are two photographers/artists that encouraged me to forward the theme of 'dispersion' in my human figure unit in many different ways. These artist have taught me that 'Human Figure' can be processed and portrayed in lots of different ways by their creative minds and inspirational images that they create.
Sakir Yildirim
Sakir Yildirim is a photographer who was born in September 9th, 1983 in Cyprus. Ever since his childhood, he's been into drawing and shaping on the pavements. His talent was first discovered by a teacher at the drawing contest among primary schools. At high school, a teacher of his directed him to study Plastic Shaping and Ceramics. Even though his work is mainly based on art, his photography work is very influential for the 'Human Figure' project that I am producing. Below are a few images of his work that have influenced me to direct my photography projects in a certain way.
My work
Sakir Yildirim's work inspired me so much to create some of his work myself, however I used my own images and an app called PicsArt. These images were not created in the same way as his, but they were distorted so that it fits my project. Below is an image that I began with when I was inspired by one of Sakir Yildirim's images that he produced.
Here is where I decided to recreate images inspired by Sakir Yildirim myself, however these are more recent images than the rest. So therefore I decided to combine the two artists I was inspired by, both Sakir Yildirim and Flora Borsi and create a piece of my own. Even though this should be my conclusion, I do think that the image below links to the inspiration of Sakir more than Flora's work so this is why it is displayed here.
Before
After
Below are more images that were only edited to the extent of the human figure project and not by inspiration by any artist, I decided to create these images myself.
Flora Borsi
Flora Borsi is a human figure photographer and artist. She is specialised in digital photography. Her work is very influential to people like me studying the 'human figure' project and other photographers and artists. I like Flora's work because it is very unique and different. Flora incorporates other things into her work, flips things around and puts them back in the same place so that they look abnormal. She also involves animals into portraits however I am more inspired by her other disorientated work. She makes portraits look like a melted face and changes the look of them completely.
Flora's work is effective because she makes portraits look as if they're melted or displaced. She does this by changing the shape of the models face and changing the place of the facial features to make them look less realistic and more 'liquefied'. Below are my original images that I took before photo shopping them when influenced by Flora Borsi.
Below are more images that I edited using photo-shop whilst being inspired by Sakir Yildirim's work.
Below are images that I edited using the liquefy tool on photo-shop. These images were inspired by Flora Borsi and her monster-like changes to models. She does this to change the perspective on models and how beautiful they are meant and made out to be, and it shows a feminist side to Flora and her work, because she shows how it doesn't have to define models as a person if they look nice or not.
Flora portrays a dark background and puts the images in black and white to make the images look like they were originally meant to be models for a campaign or a brand. She does this to present the idea of models in her work and how they can change from being beautiful to a monstrosity, and deformed. This is why I have transformed the portraits into black and white because the images were originally influenced by Flora Borsi and her change of models work.