Error | Week One : Research
This week I . . . interviewed fellow Ravensbourne students for primary research | found local inspiration at the O2 mall . . . Focus piece Living Catwalk | Photographic Series O2 shopping mall 28.09.22 : As a project in Primary Research, I began by interviewing a Ravensbourne fashion student about errors in clothes design; specifically about design for the wide variety of human shapes & sizes. Inspired by her observations, I photographed passers-by at the nearby mall. I looked for juxtapositions between glossy marketing images/displays and ‘real’ people. Editing the photographs into a series later, I selected shots where I had captured poses you might see in catwalk models and arranged them in pairs and trios unified by colour and theme. I took the photographs on my iPhone, designed the typography in Pages, and collected the series of images in Keynote. . . . Analysing my work, I notice how a research project evolved into a photographic project. Initially,...