I will be printing this out and hanging it up next to my images for the Friends and Family Night so that the viewers can gather an understanding of what goes in to my images.
Natalie Rogers
Friday, July 1st 2016.
"The Kids Next Door"
"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age.
And at a certain age the child has grown and
puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies."
- E.M
My portfolio is about the natural beauty and innocence of children that has been captured in moments of candor through organised photoshoots.
These girls are a part of my close family and friend groups and I wanted to capture not only beautiful images but also the essence of their youth and vitality.
This project photographs them in their everyday life and is an exploration of their character.
This can help with the viewing of my images in the line up I have described later in this post.
Below are 3 of favourite pairings from my book:
I really love this pairing because of the blues in the skies of each photo and how that connects the images and helps the page "flow" together. I also like this pairing because it is one of the few that I have in my portfolio that include three images (a diptych and a singular image).
With this pairing, I thought it would be nice to fabricate a sense of warmth through the colour tones in this image combination because a lot of my work so far is very cool and distant. I also knew as soon as I took these two images that they were going to be a pair because of how well they go together content-wise.
And finally, with this pairing above, I wasn't sure about it at first but I've lived with it for a while and Ive grown to like the contrast between Kiera's freckles and Ashleigh's acne. I feel like these images are very personal and up-close that it almost feels like an invasive portrait, however I think a lot of young girls who view this will hopefully see that you can have freckles, acne or whatever skin condition and still be beautiful.
Wall Layout:
I first lay these out as a normal line up and then separated them in to diptychs and individual prints.
I definitely was going to keep my final portfolio images as a line, I tried them in groups, formations and in many other ways but none drew me in more than having the line of them. I wanted Kiera's portrait to be dead centre as I think it is my strongest image; it is also my favourite photograph I've taken yet. From that foundation, I built my line with my understanding of even spacing not only throughout the line but within the images to achieve my most efficient and aesthetically pleasing viewing platform so far.
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