artist statement?

In the past three years that I have been photographing, the great majority of my photos have involved women models. This assignment "You can do anything, but there can only be one photo", was probably the hardest for me to come up with. When i take photographs, I like to take as many as i possibly can, so they all tell a story. I finally came up with an idea, I wanted to photograph women and fruit. Women have been related to fruit throughout art for a very long time, and I wanted to see if i could replicate an image. When i presented my idea in class, Ms. MacWright liked it, but said "Why don't you challenge yourself, and use men for models". At first I wasn't too sure how i would be able to link men with fruit, but i finally decided i would give it a go. This tryptich is called "Give a boy fruit". All i did for these photos was give each boy a piece of fruit, then they "played with it". I wanted to see what they would do when given a piece of fruit, if they would squeeze it, eat it, juggle it, or just hold it. The only "staged" part of these photographs were the shirts. I did tell each boy to wear a plain colored shirt, with the same color as the fruit. I will be attending school for photography in the fall, and I will always take Ms. MacWrights' advice to become a better photographer and challenge myself.

More of the photos from the tat project..

Blogger was being extremely slow the other day, so I didn't get a chance to finish uploading the rest of the photos... here they are:

UPDATE!

Actually, Instead.

I am going to still do a triptych of fruit- Watermelon, Lemon, and Kiwi. But instead of using girls, i am going to go out of my range, and do all three guys.

I am still not 100% sure how i am going to relate it, since in my last idea I was going to correspond the models makeup...

But i will figure it out! Whether it's same color shirts, or hats, or even sneakers.

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Two Reference photographs

Week Twenty-Eight

With Summer time shortly coming, i have constantly been eating watermelon! Watermelon is my favorite snack to eat, and it is also fun. For my final photo, I am going to use a girl model. I will have her hair tied back, with a light tone of face-makeup, unless her skin is natually that "porcelain,white-tone". I want this photo to be "pure, and fun". The photo will be from the collar bone up. I will draw on little black freckles/seeds on her cheeks, and put LIGHT green eye shadow, with LIGHT red lipstick (not to look "drag queen", but to match the watermelon). In the models hands will be a very big slice of watermelon. I'm not sure if I want the watermelon to be dripping, or not.
For this photograph, I am going to use the "David Hill" style of sharpening the photograph. I only used that technique once, but it didn't work out with the photograph, but I think with this photograph it will. I want this photo to be sharp and as clear as possible. I want this to be uplifting, and summer-y. Behind the model will just be a bright white background, so all of the focus is on her, showing off this big piece of watermelon.
I'm not sure when I will shoot exactly, but if i find a model at school, I could do it any day this week. If this week is very busy, I can do it saturday morning with my friend Emma who I am seeing that day. No matter what, this photograph will be edited and finished by Sunday night.

Tats