{"id":10154,"date":"2018-02-08T20:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/artanddesign\/?p=10154"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:26:48","slug":"she-sits-beside-me-like-a-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/artanddesign\/2018\/02\/08\/she-sits-beside-me-like-a-silhouette\/","title":{"rendered":"“She sits beside me like a silhouette”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As told to by fourth semester photography student Haleigh Foray:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s my job as a photographer to make my subject feel comfortable and real in front of the camera. Yet I wasn’t able to feel that way myself as a subject. How could I ask someone to do that for me? During a six-week project I became more myself and free.<\/p>\n

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At the start of winter break, Professor Curtis Willocks assigned a project to our Traditional Photography\u00a0(PH253)<\/a> class. We were to assume the role of a <\/span>LIFE<\/em>\u00a0magazine photographer of the 1950s. Any topic was fair game, even if it had a contemporary relevance. In deciding what to capture, I kept coming back to self-portraiture.<\/span><\/p>\n

I came across a project “Self-Untitled<\/a>” by photographer\u00a0Samantha Geballe<\/a>. Her work explores body image through self portraits. She states: \u201cenvisions the feeling that false interpretation provokes.\u201d She put herself forward with nothing to hide — something I’ve struggled with doing.\u00a0 My\u00a0 focus was to be comfortable and confident in front of the camera, whether I or another photographer was taking the photographs.<\/p>\n

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Haleigh Foray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Haleigh’s work is just beautiful. Her composition, her use of light, her style. She’s sensitive to people, always helping and assisting others, and now she’s applying that sensitivity to herself. <\/strong><\/h6>\n
“This project gave her the chance to express herself–who she is as a young woman” – Professor Curtis Willocks<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There was a musical component that set the tone of the project: “She sits beside me like a silhouette“<\/em> sings Harry Styles in a song from his recent album. Those words took on a special meaning–Silhouettes show your body.<\/p>\n

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Women are still expected to act and look a certain way in projecting their confidence and beauty that’s limiting in scope. I wanted to show that you just need to own your body for what it is now<\/em>, in the present.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0Photos provided by Haleigh Foray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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