It doesnt quite feel like this project has properly started yet despite getting my PLP all sorted and sent off. Right now im doing a bit of visual research here and there, thinking about how i want my photos to look. Ive been looking at the photographers Helmut Stallaerts (whose work i saw years ago in Amsterdam) and Charles Freger whose Wilder Mann project is all about taking images of European folklore, tradition and ritual that are being kept alive by communities.
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| Image from Charles Freger's Wilder Mann project |
Ive also been looking at fashion photography, as polished as i want my images to look i dont want them to be too much like something out of Vogue. I saw these images of Tilda Swinton in a campaign for Pringle, i really like the use of colour and going forward i might look at a bit of landscape painting to get a sense of those rich greens and purples of the Scottish landscape.
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| Tilda Swinton for Pringle by Ryan McGinley |
Ive gone back to McQueen again, I have Savage Beauty at home so ive been looking through that as well as a new book, Vogue on Alexander McQueen by Chloe Fox. In this book the collection ive been looking at, The Widows of Culloden is described as 'a theatrical staging of historical cruelty', for some reason this quote is really resonating with me and this project. Ive learned that Lee McQueen traced his ancestry back which was a major inspiration for the historical aspects of his work but also created a personal connection for him, Im not sure if i could manage to do this myself but its maybe something to consider.
This coming week in on holiday so im going to use the time to read some books on Scottish history and get more of an idea about who my characters will be before thinking about costume or anything like that.
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