To start off, there wasn’t any themes or ideas intended when I was making this work, I didn’t know what I was doing. The only thing I knew was that you have to make it real/fake or fake/real, with that in mind I proceed without any theme or any idea regarding which direction I’m going at… except for expressing myself like I always do…
I was thinking since this is the first project of actually producing something. It’s a great opportunity to express who I am and what I do. So I asked myself what influenced my life the most? Answer is hip-hop and urban culture. So I took pictures of things that represent that well: fitted cap, Nike kicks, rap CD that I recorded and self took photo of myself acting goofy. I took those pictures down in my basement with intended lighting and I removed the background and add a blue colour scheme on top of every pictures with heavy stroke filters. I play around a lot with opacity and effects to reach the half realistic yet half computer generated images…
But somehow these images don’t fit into one another and I don’t really want to make this project into 4 separate parts rather I want all the components fit in with one another… so I took the self photo and fill the background with building of the same effect I did with my shoes and cap… and it looks good.. I think
