Vaida and myself have decided to collaborate again for MSN4 to explore the possibility of working together on the Masters Project. We will be continuing the roles that we decided on during the collaborative and spatialised units; Vaida will be the photographer, I will be art director and retoucher and we will both formulate ideas together through discussion.

Our aim for this unit is to complete a photo shoot. This will involve the discussion of ideas, the planning of models, poses and props, a test shoot and a 2^nd shoot.  By using the photography studio we hope to improve our existing knowledge of the equiptment and workflow required to work in a studio environment. We also want to document and explore our process to see why we work well together. By doing this we hope to better understand our process.

Our theme will be continuing from our previous work (www.amyreaddesigns.com/mablog, kaklauskaitevaida.blogspot.com) on the human form and body, exploring ways of representing it. We are interested in abstract forms, which we explored in our previous work, using paint to create new forms within the body. During this unit we want to explore different ways to represent, distort, show the human form with photography.

We have an initial idea for our test shoot. Using a thin material draped over the body we want to capture the movement of the fabric to create abstract forms. The material will accentuate and extend the body, creating a new form.

Reference imagery:

http://ficdn.fashionindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/alessandra-russh3-560×758.jpg

http://www.young-germany.de/uploads/pics/fashion.JPG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaQ2JB0aB4&feature=related

Some of our influences are; Barbara Crane http://www.higherpictures.com/artists/Barbara_Crane/Works.aspx?s=150, Edward Weston http://www.edward-weston.com/edward_weston_nudes.htm.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Mert-Marcus/13896198239?v=wall – Mert and Marcus formed a collaborative partnership between a graphic designer and photographers assistant turned into a single entity creating fashion imagery.

We will be documenting our ideas, research, progress and images on our blogs, this will help us to focus our ideas for the Masters Project if we decide to work together. We will be presenting the results of our photo shoots for assessment as well as talking about the idea generating process and the success of our collaboration. We will also be critically reflecting on the unit in a critical evaluation.