The title of this project is Mood School. The message of my portrait will be to show the change in mood of a student in ISB on a school day. While the work might seem very normal and average, I want to reflect the pain and frustration that a student has to endure throughout the day, and I want my audience to feel surprised and frightened that an ISB student has to go through so much pain every day.

For my identity portrait, my inspiration is the type of photography that have solid color backgrounds and generally a table in front of them. In the photos, the colored background can generally provide the vibe and emotion in the scene of the shot, and I can utilize the table to place objects (clocks, food, paper) to provide context to the photo. This is because I want to take a set/series of photos that represent the change in mental state and mood of a student over a school day at ISB, and I can place a clock on the table to represent the passing of time, and the background can be chosen to correspond to the pose/emotion that I want in the specific photo.

Here are some examples:

Singer-songwriter, Cale Tyson. By Chris Daniels with a 24mm – 70mm, edited with Mastin Labs preset Portra 400.

Musician, Jessey Dee Clark by Chris Daniels with a 24mm lens, edited with Mastin Labs preset Ektar 100.

By Chris Daniels with a 24mm lens

My identity portrait will unfortunately fail to reflect a societal/cultural issue, because I think the issues are very difficult to reflect through photography, and it will also be difficult to make the viewers of the portrait interpret the issue. Instead, I want my identity concept to reflect the change in the mental state of students throughout a normal school day. I want to effectively show the passing of time through various lighting and colors, and my model will do poses and facial expressions according to the average mental state of students during the period of time during the school day.