For my project, I decided to focus on covering up our insecurities. For my last project, I photographed the body and the parts of each subject’s body that they feel most insecure about. For this project I decided to focus on the face and the process of taking those insecurities and covering them up. I used two subjects and photographed them without any makeup on, them getting ready for a night out, and a photo of them together in light make up. Additionally, I created two collages to portray each part of the face. The collages are all individual pictures that were taken close up to the subject. By enlarging parts of the face that may not get much focus, I hope to give a new sense of beauty to each individual part of the face. I left one or two parts of each collage in color to portray the make up on that part of their face and how each subject feels a need to cover up.
I really enjoyed this project and if I had developed this idea sooner, I would have loved to make more collages of faces, maybe even more abstract. I hope that these photos speak to each other one in the hopes of the stigma of beauty, make up, and insecurities.
