Sican proposal + style

1/ what do you intend to photograph?

I want to capture the real identity of different people. I want to photograph people when they are doing something in their bedrooms. I will start by asking questions: what you usually do in your bedroom. I want to find out the unknown sides of them.

So I will mainly focus on my close friends who I have known for a while and find out either dark, crazy, weird sides by asking questions. will use a wide-angle lens trying to show their personality through the room decorations. My subjects might not look at the camera. And I hope they are comfortable with what they are doing like there is without a camera and outside observer.

2- why do you want to photograph the subject?

I feel people all show totally different sides in public. It is necessary to hide some parts of the self. But it is interesting to explore what people are hiding or not brave enough to show. I know decent people take naked portraits or living under a mess because of mental problems...I never wear a bikini because I am afraid to show my body, but I will walk around my room with underwear. Because I am free at that moment. I believe people do some secret things when they are alone. But I hope people can accept themselves and never feel guilty about it.

3- how do you intend to revisit the subject over the final weeks of class to build on critique?

There are no second chances for me to photograph the same scene. So I hope if I do it, I will make sure it is best.

4- why will the viewer (anyone aside from you) care to spend time with your photographs?

I hope views can stop in front of my work because my photos stir their interest. They can guess how the persons really are in real life and how they are different when they are alone. I hope they are willing to find out every person (no matter how good they look in public) have another side and become brave enough to accept the real self. 

5- what are the challenges you anticipate running into?

I want to do my work with some of my close friends, who I already have known for a while. I am interested in another side of them. But I am not sure they are willing to show what they really are. Our conversation would be difficult and critical to my work.

I used to have deep discussions with some of my friends. I know they have interesting stories, but I also afraid my visual work would hurt them in some ways. But my intention is to make people embody their imperfections or show who they really are.

In the style homework, I imitate Carl Johan De Geer's work. His photos are hilarious and has artistic feeling. He uses shallow depth of views. Subjects were not put in random places to model for something, but the background and people are as a whole to tell a story. He photographed from various angles: close-up, extreme close-up, low-level, high level, long shoot... He captures the motions (even blurry in pictures), facial expressions, actions. His He captured the real stuff. He didn’t care about whether the background or the subject are complete or not, like a solider missing one tip of hat, a dog missing toes. But the incompleteness never made the audience feel “weird”. There is madness, craziness, opinions, destructive power.... He captured the real stuff.

His style

My work