After these past two photoshoots, I have created three new pages for my zine using two images from these recent ones and an image from the first photoshoot I did for this project. I selected this image from the first studio photoshoot because I felt it portrayed the right emotional tone for the short section [&

(fig.1) untitled by Paris Naik-Neenan In figure one, my best image from the photoshoot (06-05-21), a woman is holding up her clenched hands in a manner that strongly suggests frustration while her face is surrounded by her hair, evoking a suffocating mood. I like this image best because it portrays my mother’

At the start of this photoshoot, I intended to capture water spraying from the model’s mouth and use the Speedlight I was using to freeze the droplets in time. Still, my model struggled to spit out the water to prevent the photoshoot from ending without any useable images. I had to improvise how to demonstrat

(fig.1) untitled by Paris Naik-Neenan In figure one, the subject leans back with their arms behind their back, facing toward the sky, which demonstrates a state of tension within the subject, symbolising my mother’s state of mind of being contorted, twisted and pulled in one direction while seeking to head in

(fig.1) untitled by Paris Naik-Neenan In figure one, the effect I intended for worked perfectly, which was to blow out the highlights of details from the model while keeping the shadows and highlights elements of the background. To create an ethereal impression of a female figure, I wanted the viewer to focus o

Max Slobodda is a professional photographer who studied at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany and received a Ba in Photography. He creates work centred around performative, surrealistic photography in his free time. I’m particularly interested in his most recent series named “Str

For the zine layout, I decided to separate my mother’s short story into multiple sections to spread out over six pages and then have an image that would correspond with the emotional tone of the writing and motif of that particular section. Initially, I knew what images worked best for three zine sections. St