Media: 35mm colour film.
People in general are quite stereotypical towards others, especially when looking at portraiture.
What interests me about self portraiture is the way that people choose to portray/photograph themselves. People will take photo after photo until they get the "right" photo. They feel the need to find the right light and their "good side."
So just to mix things up I decided to give groups of people a disposable camera and let them take photos of themselves, I told them they could pull whatever pose/face they wanted to. It was completely up to them.
It was a brave decision to make as all control was out of my hands and I would have no idea what they had photographed until I processed the films.
Once I processed the film and printed some of the photos I began to see that the poses/faces the people were pulling were very generic, for example; smiling, acting close/friendly to other people and one even putting a hand infront of the camera to prevent her photo being taken. The photographs also showed how much the media these days has influenced us by these generic poses.
I decided to progress further with hairdressers as they seemed to be the most stereotypical people out of the other groups I chose to phtotograph. I then took my camera out to Newport city centre to try and capture some more hairdressers.
I decided to print them a small size as they started to look like snapshots and I felt a smaller size would be more effective.
Here are some test prints:
Here are my final 8 prints:
