I've decided on my project idea and what I will take photos of, but how will they look?
I began thinking of characteristics of children, such as losing teeth, messy mouths from eating, bad haircuts, playing with toys, bath time, sleeping, etc. This helped me to decide exactly what I plan on photographing.
I want to take close-up/extreme close-up photographs of the above ideas. I began sketching possible photos, as seen below.
By producing these photographs, I won't show the full identity of the child (which is arguably a good thing in order to protect the child's identity), but also helps to create the untraditional view of child innocence photographs, which are generally mid-shots of children in action. Additionally, by using close-ups, it forces the viewer to focus on that particular area, so hopefully a close up of a jagged fringe will help to reinforce the idea of a child, and therefore child innocence, which enables viewers to understand the project without needing much guidance. Self-explanatory photographs are, as I have found, almost always effective in drawing an audience in due to them understanding and therefore not feeling excluded or 'outside'. Instead, viewers are welcomed and can instantly associate themselves with the photographs.
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