Personal Narrative: Creating The Human Figure

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I start creating my work by replaceing traditional lighting associated with photgraphy with the lighting of tv screens. Then I continue following an image by also removing the figure as the main portion of the image , to make the figure less important. Finally, when i capture these images I use long exposures which creates a stillness of the image, except for the human figure, which creates this blurr and motion in the image.

My images are a series of self portriats. I spend time setting up the frame and what object i want to be included or excluded before setting my seklf in the frame. Most of the time is spent more in creating the enviroment to express the emotional and personailty o fthe charatcer, and then letting blur of the human presence

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