In portraits generally the focus is on the eyes. The eyes are referred to as windows to the soul, but what is the soul? The dictionary defines the soul as the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being regarded as immortal, a persons moral or emotional nature or sense of identity. For this project I am going to take a series of close eyed portraits and ask the models to describe their souls. Rather than allowing us to "see their souls" in their eyes they will have them closed as in a way of looking at or examining their own soul. I want to work with black and white images, or have the colors very muted. I plan to have a lot of these images - 10+ and will print them smaller than 8x10. I am undecided on how I will display their photo and description. I am also unsure of the lighting or angle I want to shoot from.
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ReplyDeleteI am very interested in seeing your approach of capturing the eyes. There was discussion of how eyes are the "door to the soul." I would be interested in a study of the eyes. A series of images capturing the language and emotions that our eyes display.
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