Project conclusion

I have to say, as projects go, this has been the most fun I could probably get away with. The idea stemmed from my teen years of dressing up inspired by female musicians that I loved and taking my portrait. If I was sad or not feeling to good about myself, I'd sit and listen to the band or singer and spend hours doing my make up and hair, picking outfits and posing like them to the camera. It always distracted me from the thing that was getting me down and funnily enough that was usually my reflection. The photos of myself taking on these women's persona's and self confidence made me realise that I could be them, easily.
I wanted to convey that feeling to a wider audience with this series of images. To me, it relates to the use of imagery in media campaigns in magazines and newspapers and how that is taking affect on all of us, the younger generations especially. It relates to the lack of self confidence in nearly all teenage and pre-teen girls because of the use of image manipulation on the images we see in the media and how through the ages women have been portrayed in these campaign photographs.
I honed in on female musicians because of their clear talent and as a homage to their presence still being felt in the music industry today. I felt that if I didn't concentrate on one talent, the project wouldn't be as direct and the people I portrayed not as recognisable as in this series, if you recognise one musician, you can gather that the rest are also musicians too.
I also wanted to make the images look like they were from the era of the musician. As if they were taken for a record sleeve or tour poster. I used the medium itself to create these different affects.

Over all, this project is really dear to my heart. I am really excited to see it presented properly for reviewing. There is no doubt that I will continue this project in the future. I want to expand to different work groups of women such as politicians or writers. I would also want to experiment in photographing myself as famous and notorious men.