Start of Major Project

After many months of not taking photos and writing my 8000 word essay it's been tough trying to turn my mind back to working on a project. Looking back at my last Major Project Planning I have been finding it difficult to develop my self portraits, dealing with the issues of being insignificant and dealing with this faze of my life, moving on from the safety of education and into the big bad working world.

After researching into the artist Jemima Stehli, dealing with issues of the gaze and using her body in many of her portraits she has become a huge influence to me. With this in mind I wanted to deal with some of the issues I have with my body. After putting on a lot of weight over the winter term I started a health kick in January and have lost a few pounds and with this I have gained a new self confidence in my body. Whilst I don't have a perfect body, and never in my mind will, I want to try and celebrate my body and get over these fears. Therefore I picked up the camera and started to do some nude shots, I wanted to focus on womanly curves and aspects of the figure regularly used to document the sensuality of the female form but making the images fairly abstract, so only hints of it are captured.

Below are my first experiments with this idea. I am very nervous and even embarrassed to bare all to you but thanks to such female artists as Jemima Stehli and Mari Sarai I want to celebrate these nerves and embrace them. I don't know where these images will lead to but for now am fairly pleased with them, celebrating wobbly bits in all their glory! Let me know what you think.