Things are coming along?

Hi everyone I FINALLY TOOK SOME PICTURES AND THEY CAME OUT AWESOME! The setting ended up changing and it was done very sporadically.
My makeup looks:

The pictures are currently being uploaded and will posted on my next blog post I'm so happy it's all coming along, Earth will be shot on Monday considering my model was unavailable on Saturday :)

Finally

This whole week I have been brainstorming over the theme of the photo series, asking various creative individuals such as teachers and friends. Maybe it was a compilation of all their thoughts, but I was enlightened with an idea that entails numerous societal aspects, including nature, femininity, and personas. My photo series will be called Lady Earth, there will be four models each representing an element, water, earth, air, and fire. I will choose each model according to personalities. The elements represent different aspects of those people whom identify as a woman, it is also an analogy for women's crucial role in society. The woman creates life in the same manner of the elements. 

FIRE

SARA LINDE 

PERSONALITY: DARING, PASSIONATE, OUTSPOKEN, COURAGE, IMMODERATE

SETTING: PARKING LOT, ROOFTOP

AIR

SOL WEMAN

PERSONALITY: INDEPENDENCE, DILIGENCE, JOY, CLARITY

SETTING:BRIDGE/MOUNTAIN                             

EARTH 

BIANCA BUTLER 

PERSONALITY: PERSERVERANCE, RESISTANCE, AMBITIOUS,RELIABILITY

SETTING: EVERGLADES 

WATER

ANA CARDENAS 

PERSONALITY:UNDERSTANDING, PLACIDITY, MODEST, INDIFFERENCE 
SETTING: BEACH, LAKE, POND 

Www.poznanie.sk. "Fire, Water, Air, Earth." Fire, Water, Air, Earth. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2017.

INDECISIVE AND CONFUSED

"Feminism has done a lot for women, right? And it’s changed a lot too. After three waves of bickering over what is and isn’t appropriate patriarchy-dismantling conduct, the movement has now adopted a more laissez-faire attitude towards women’s behaviour: Fuck the Madonna/whore complex, the fourth wave declares, and put it in a NutriBullet. Fuck the housewife/CEO binary and the girly girl/tomboy dichotomy. Women can be sexual or puritanical or maternal or spawn-phobic or heavily made-up or #nomakeup or waxed or shaved or any number and mixture of things once categorised as either patriarchy-sanctioned or patriarchy-condemned. It’s all OK! You can be cheer captain and on the bleachers! Radical softness! Woo!"


This excerpt from a magazine article on Dazed magazine has inspired one of my photo series ideas which is depicting different stereotypes of women viewed in society, specifically media. It would explore female archetypes  such as housewife, CEO, etc.


I also have another idea of depicting working class women in Miami, mainly Latinx and Black women that transcend struggle. The photos will comment on society's treatment of working class women and their hardships. 


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NEW IDEAS!

So I've been researching feminist photography!!!! 

I have found much of inspiration in photograhers such as Bettye Lane, she is responsible for documenting much of the 1960s-70s protests such as the Stonewall protests which is where the gay liberation movement began! 

Lane also, however, was strongly interested in the women's movement, and would document everything from marches and placards to the first female bus driver in New York and portraits of Gloria Steinem. If there was one documenter of the history of first and second-wave feminism in America, it was Lane.





Another great inspiration is Abigail Heyman, she was known best for her 1974 book, 'Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal,' a sort of illustrated encyclopedia of women performing self-limiting roles. The collection was filled with images of suffocating domesticity, from women in curlers to suffering mothers to Heyman herself having an abortion. The series gave Heyman her lifelong reputation as a feminist talent, and Growing Up Female remains a classic that every American woman should see at least once.





My research has inspired me to make a decision... I will no longer be doing an opinion piece, instead I will be producing a photo series that will transcend a message of feminism and female empowerment!!!


Thorpe, JR. "9 Powerful Feminist Photo Series You Need To Know About." Bustle. Bustle, 12 July 2016. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.

Bunch of bAD nEWS

I am feeling unmotivated and uninspired. 

My teacher told me I can not publish my friend's work on my magazine :( 

Therefore, no more poetry or art. Curse these guidelines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANYWHO, I will be doing an opinion piece instead, it will be titled "Feminism in Trump's America"

that will explore how to stay empowered under Trump's administration. I wish to explore current issues in feminism such as equal pay and planned parenthood.  

Here are some things to take into account: 

• One of Trump’s first executive orders prohibits the granting of federal US funds to organizations that perform abortions or provide abortion-related counseling abroad. This measure was widely condemned in the United States and worldwide.
• Trump’s administration has already ordered the defunding of organizations that support women’s right to choose, his Vice President led the anti-abortion march and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives voted against funding Planned Parenthood 

I am also planning on aiding the piece with a photo shoot that will ooze female empowerment, I will be taking the pictures of my friends the photoshoot will be inclusive of all body shapes, races, and ethnicities!!!!! 

:/ 



Murillo, Celeste. "The Failure of Liberal Feminism in the Trump Era." Left Voice. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2017.

sup...

Hi I played around with joomag which is the magazine creator platform i'll be using, and jesus it is not as easy as it seems.

I wanted to take the time to develop an outline.


COVER

• illustration 
• will have no coverlines nor selling lines 
• will only have a masthead 
• 
• most of the magazines that have inspired mine do not have coverlines, i believe it follows my aesthetic better 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• two page spread, there will be an about page that will contain information on the magazine sort of explaining its philosophy and aims 
• the about page will be on the left side of the table of contents 
• about page will include how the magazine came to be 
• table of contents will be a simple page outlining the features of the magazine
• poetry by sol weman 
• art by sara linde 
• art by maria morales 
• essay by karla zurita 
• photograph series 
• women in Trump's America
• outlines several political issues and how it affects women 
• 

EDITOR'S NOTE

• I want to include an editor's note that will be my personal thoughts about the magazine and why I decided to do it.

TWO-PAGE SPREAD?

• After the editor's note i'd want the next thing to be the poem by sol accompanied by a drawing on the left hand side that will represent the poem 
• 

i MAY be adding too many things however I'd like it to end with a double pagespread sheet of a photoshoot of my girl friends

YAY!!!

Hi guys, I have talked to my friend Veronica Bello who is an artist and she gave me permission use her illustrations in my magazine.

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!

I will be using one of her illustrations for my cover page :)

The illustrations embrace femininity, which is why the complement my magazine so well.


I am going to play around with joomag and will see which illustration fits the cover the best.