Video: Challenge to the canons of beauty and rethink yourself in the Skins project from a young English photographer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The “Skins” series of photographs by British photographer Rosanna Jones is a fascinating artistic phenomenon at the intersection of such art forms as photography and painting. “I paint over the photographs. This process is akin to making a pipe dream come true,”says the photographer.
Roseanne is only nineteen years old, she is engaged in fashion photography, portraits and painting. Jones is currently studying photography at Falmouth University in Cornwall, UK. As part of her Final Major Project, Jones began work on the Skins series, the main idea of which was to demonstrate how people are used to pretending and hiding their true selves behind someone else's mask.
Jones' project was inspired by a phrase belonging to the famous French writer François de La Rochefoucauld: "We are so used to pretending to others that in the end we start pretending to ourselves." Indeed, sometimes people are so busy creating their own "positive image" that the most important thing is lost - individuality. “This is how we hide our identity, we seem to disappear,” explains the photographer. Within the framework of the project, Jones is trying to answer difficult questions related to self-perception and the pressure on each person of certain canons of beauty, adopted in a particular environment. Roseanne's second inspiration was photographer Rik Garret, who created the controversial Symbiosis series of photographs, the main idea of which was to blur the boundaries between human bodies.
Turning in creativity to the idea of pretense and distortion of appearance is especially relevant today, when almost every photographer resorts to using photo editors to improve the appearance of models. Jones acts differently: “I like to photograph something beautiful, be it people or nature, and then destroy that fragile beauty. By applying paint over the image, erasing the top layer from the photo, scrubbing it, I take the picture to a new level. This approach symbolizes the subjective attitude of society towards beauty - ideals are changeable,”says Jones.
Another Korean artist Rim Lee creates original paintings: she, like Rosanna Jones, also combines photography and painting using a complex concept.
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