Industry | Photoshoot

For our photo-shoot we decided we needed a white room in which we could set up our own backgrounds and props, as we couldn't get a studio room booked we decided to use the disabled toilet. This fitted extremely well with our theme of glorified sex, and the 'night before'. It related to our quote of 'not always knowing, and yet always searching'. Almost as if the drunkenness has given memory less, returning to the scene to find out what happened.

In spite of this, we wanted to ensure the photo-shoot was light hearted. So referring back to our main muse; Arvida Bystrom, we set the room up to be a playful studio, covered in shiny pink fabrics and feather bowers. Among the child-like set up, we included props that kept within our theme, such as condoms and underwear. Both Emanuella and I set up the room whilst Emily and Kirsten took care of make up and styling. Lena was our model.

Both Kirsten and I photographed the shoot on our own cameras, and I also took polaroids throughout to give another dynamic to the shoot. I filmed parts of the shoot so that the promotion girls; Emily and Kirsten could create a short fashion film to show in our presentation at the end.

Whilst shooting, through using both my camera and Kirsten's simultaneously this three panel 'flash' effect could be seen on Emanuella's phone. As a group we felt this really worked with our shoot and I decided to edit my pictures to look like these.

I think it was important that we all contributed and helped each other during the shoot, it brought us close together as a group and we all enjoyed the day. My initial worries of not being able to work within a group dynamic of people I hadn't spoken to before completely went away, and this showed through the final outcome of the images, and how well we clicked. Each person put effort into the shoot, we all came in on the Monday outside Uni timetable to get it completely, and brought in fabric, toys, make up, camera's and Lena brought her garments to style. She produced two outfits, alongside the fabric made up of our textiles. We also had various clothes to style these alongside. At the end of the day we had five complete outfits, which would be enough for an editorial, our aim.