Rachel Brown FMP review.

I was really excited to see Rachel Brown today, because she had seen my work months prior to this day and I wanted to show her how far I had progressed with my project. I was excited because she gave me really good feedback the last time I saw her and so I knew it would be really beneficial to me showing her my project at it's current stage. I wrote down notes from speaking to her which I will then go into more detail about:

Straight away, Rachel said that she remembered my project and was really impressed with how much I had developed my work. She said that my images contained performance in her opinion and that I was playing the role as director as I was asking the models in my images to pose in specific ways and 'play a part'. She also said that the way I had shot my images were really engaging and a word she used to describe my images was 'fragment', which I think represents my project really well as I am only showing small parts of the subject I am photographing. She said that she thinks the colours work within my project, which I am really happy about as this is one part of my project I really love experimenting with, but mentioned that she thinks I need to use more colours to really have a variety. As I had experimented with the mirrors I had used, I was interested to know what Rachel thought about using a cracked mirror in my project - she said that she felt it made it harder to get to the person because of how little could be seen. She also said the same about the images I had created shooting through paper, as the paper had caused multiple layers to appear. Continuing this project, Rachel suggested using smoke to create even more distraction and obstruction to the portraits, to add an ethereal vibe. I really like this idea and we spoke about using smoke bombs to add even more colour to the portraits, but I think this would create too many colours and would ruin the images as there would be too much going on. Also as I want to stay in the studio, I don't think it would be possible to use these as they are more suitable for outdoor use. I am going to look into using a smoke machine for this if I want to pursue this idea.



Rachel placed these images together in categories she felt worked, and I was really surprised with how well I think the images work together. I knew that the portraits that were taken in very similar ways using the round mirror would work together purely based on how they look, but didn't think that the portrait shot using cling film would work in this project because of how different it is. By placing these images like this Rachel has helped me immensely on seeing how diverse my project is and could be, and how I could place my imagery in different categories to make it work as one whole project.

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