PHOTOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE | Day 5 | A Real-Life Case

DÍA 5: A Real-Life Case

Unlike day 4, the idea here was clear: Represent Sylvia Plath's suicide. However, it was technical matters that did not allow me to achieve the desired photo, but still with a good result.

The good thing about having a clear idea is that I could establish a space and I didn't have to search as much as the day before, the important thing is how to tell this story. At first I wanted to make a more critical approach to the viewer. Where you put the camera and the object are fundamental to having a discourse, and at first I wanted the viewer to feel guilty, or at least complicit of the female suicide, in this the kitchen has a fundamental connotative weight in our story.

At first these were the two photographs I wanted to use in a double exhibition, but it's a work that is done with Photoshop, for the short amount of time I did not have a chance to install it and do it, so it remains as a future photograph to be taken. The challenge continues, I have to solve and get a good photograph to publish before 12 AM (it was almost 6PM when I took the photos).

There is nothing left but to experiment a bit and start to see what I imagined from another focus. I swear that I even thought to make a photo of an egg for that to be the photo with more likes in Instagram ... A fact that seems still unusual to me, it seems nice to found people that intend to make Instagram a place for photographers.

And as much as I liked my improvised tripod, I put the camera to another height and I could still do the photomontage with other photographs and that, in my opinion, acquired a more poetic sense.

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