Melissa Moore
After being shown the work of Melissa Moore in one of our lectures, I loved the concept of her series 'Know the Edge', and started looking at the series for inspiration for my own projects concept.
I find her photos from this series can be quite sexual, or at least have hints of a sexual nature within them. For starters the concept of being in someone else's house without them knowing, the idea of dressing up, and the hints whereby she stands in bedroom, squats down in the photos etc. I thought this was really interesting, and think this is where my love for her concept came from.
I knew from the start that I wanted to focus on the reuse of waste, but in a positive light. So to look at how society reuses waste for gain. It is almost 'trendy' at the moment to recycle and reuse so I thought that this was an area that I could find a lot of inspiration for my work from.
These are my favorite photos from the series 'Know the Edge', for various reasons, mainly for the composition, which I've found really interesting in all of Melissa Moore's photos.
I like that her face is not shown in any of the photos, obviously stemming from the reason that she is doing something against the law, but also I think makes the photos that much more interesting and inviting. I almost feel as though I want to be there with her, what is she looking at? Where is she in the house? What does the rest of that room look like? Where has she positioned the camera? Its that sense of ambiguity that makes this series so exciting.
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