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This body of work that I have created falls into the category of interpretive work because it is showing the parts of people that they think are their best physical features. To make this work, I took a picture of each person and asked them to look at the photo and tell me what they believed was their best feature shown in the photograph. I’ve noticed that for the past couple of years its been really difficult to find people that will actually complement themselves. We live in a time period where it is common for people to constantly criticize themselves when they look in the mirror and we tend to naturally point out flaws. This series of work that I have constructed was made in an effort to get people to find something that they actually liked about their image instead of criticizing and pointing out flaws like we normally do. One of the most important things that I value is the ability to see yourself and truly love yourself. Many people don’t realize how important it is to love yourself, so I took advantage of this project to show people that we do have a reason to love ourselves. 

All of my life, I’ve found natural beauty to be better than anything man can try to fix, build, or create. Often times we try so hard to create our own beauty and we tend to get in the way of the beauty already placed in front of us. There are many types of creation in this world that we attempt at making more beautiful. I’ve always thought that natural beauty is the best way to show God’s power and His glory. The creation I decided to capture are people, specifically young women. The category these photos would fall under are interpretive photos. I want my audience to be able to guess what my opinions are about natural beauty. For this piece of work, I decided to choose young women to have their natural beauty and their put together beauty captured, comparing within a series of other photos. The goal of this project is try to bring out the feelings of the women and the audience for both sides of beauty.

My series is an aesthetic evaluation and is a form of art photography. This series of images looks at fruit in cross section. Each image shows the outer skin and the inner flesh. My vision for this project is to show how the outer layers should not lead to a judgement about what is beneath the surface. The concept of “don’t judge a book by its cover.” The same principles can and should be applied to the human race. We all look different externally but it is the inner being that truly reflects who we are as a person. The heart and soul of the human race. The goodness inside. Black, white, Hispanic, Asian, beautiful, scarred, pierced, tattooed, gay or straight and so on. When fully mature, there is a ripeness or perhaps a sweetness that develops in fruit, much like the wisdom we gain over the years as human beings. I also included a picture of all the fruit combined, which together looks colorful and amazing, individually unique but aesthetically harmonious together. Pictures were cropped and edited in Photoshop and Nik.

Photoshop Image - Noah Dockery

ICA 5, Christina

ICA 5-Momma

Brittany Weaver, Lake St. Clair 

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