What will your message be?

Through my images, I hope to demonstrate when a person refuses to recognize reality/truth. In other terms, denialism is the psychology of human behavior. This is when a person rejects accepting reality in order to avoid a psychologically unpleasant fact.

How will you show this message with your photography-

I’ll try to convey my message by reflecting a fuzzy image in a mirror.  Alexey Titarenko inspired me with the long exposure technique, which would be used to show blurriness. In this case,  long exposure symbolizes what no one wants to see/believe in life. If possible, I’d like to try to make items reflected in the mirror monochrome while leaving things outside the mirror in their native hues.

The two images above are by Alexey Titarenko, who specializes in monochrome and long-exposure photography. I chose these two images because some people may wish to ignore the idea that a family can get along, that friend can hang out, that jobs may be successful, and so on.

 

  • The WORKING title of my project is “denialism.”  
  • I want my audience to feel empathy for the subject/individual. 
  • I will get inspiration and develop my ideas by looking for photographs by Alexey Titarenko that show long exposure photos in monochrome.