These are my 5 best shots of the identity project.

My intent was to show darkness and how a little bit of light can make it seem more mysterious. The faces are hidden in order to signify how lack of light hides and how it can cast even greater shadows and mysteries. In this photos, I show my friend Ethan who walked in the black box to meet friend. There was nothing in the black box. He waited long time but nobody come. So he tried to go out but the door suddenly locked.  He tried to open it but it didn’t work. He went to the glass and look at his reflection, try to what to do. He turn back and he saw mask on the chair, which was there nothing before.  He put it on and there was a light. But later the light was faint and disappearing. The lightness shows what we know, although it is not a lot. It does not really show the person’s face, making the viewer guess more.  It only shows Ethan shadows. 

I have experimented with wearing the mask and dragon shirt.  However, my teacher gave me a feedback and said mask doesn’t show persons face because it is hidden and for shirts there is dragon which distracts from the main elements. Using this, I decided to take photos of very simple elements with dark and some light.  Main element  ( dark , light & blue light ). 

My concept for these images is to show a person trapped in some sort of dark place  ( black box ) with only some light. It brings together what I learnt from light and shadows, utilizing the best angles possible to create mysterious shadows from a small source of light.

The artists that inspired my presentation was Man Ray.  He used masks, shadow as well as black and white to create mysterious and interesting photos.

The light creates shadows in the image, outlying the subject. It often simply lights up a small part of Ethan. The eyes are drawn to the mask or the person standing in the frame. There is where I want viewer’s eyes to go. The light color is not really consistent in the images. One is blue and another is white. The viewer may be a little bit perplexed, especially as to what the sequence of images might be about and what happens at the end.