Expressive

This semester I am taking an "Art" photography class called Expressive. We are working with a theme called "The Other Side" and it is as broad and vague as it sounds. I will try to take you on the journey that this class takes me and so far it has been a lot about ME. I have not previously used myself as model in the way that I have done for this class.

In our first assignment we had to express the feeling we got when we thought about "the other side" One of the first words that came to my mind was "Taboo". The other side for me are the things we don't like to talk about, things we don't like to look at and things that are not accepted by society. 

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This is the lyrics from Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" that I composed with this image from a book.

I our second assignment we had to work with the Arris, the line that divide two sides. The line can be real, metaphorical or imaginary. This is what I came up with.

The one above both have a physical arris and an emotonal, the girl in white is not welcomed in the other girls play.

Half make up, half natural.

I find the two compositions with my girls and I both fascinating ans scary. The similarities are striking and the arris between child and adult are somewhat invisible.

In this assignment we had to shoot self portraits, finding "the other side" within.

This one is clear, I think, I obviously have my Danish side, but I also have an American side which influences me. My two sides makes me ONE.

This represents my past.

This represents my fragile nakedness, whatever that means?

My dad was visiting, while I shot this assignment. He means a lot to me and these "funny faces" are precious to me. It was such a fun experience shooting these, that I did a series with him and my girls as well. 

A side of me that you don't get to see everyday! Or maybe you do, depending on who you are.....

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