I started thinking back to my original idea, as I wanted to take my photographs from my shoot further. This idea of fashion forecasting and people being obsessed by trends and being consumed by them came back into my head. I loved this idea and I deffinitely didn't want it to get lost in the midst of my work. I thought about how if people get too consumed by trends they almost loose their identity, and this as a topic in itself is one I am very interested in. I thought about how I can let this come across in my work. What if my model had missing features in the photograph. For example her eyes could be blacked out, either individually or by a black stripe. This could be done easily in Adobe Photoshop. But what about if i physically tore out the eyes, our if I spray painted a black line over the eyes. Or just drew one with a black marker pen. I think this would make it really interesting and I think I would deffinitely set it aside from other magazine covers.
You expect magazine covers to be glossy and clean so to find one that almost looks like it has been purposefully vandalised would certainly make it interesting.
For this idea I found inspiration from the photographer Antoine Gregor. He takes photographs of people looking at their phones in various different settings, and later manipulates them to look as though the peoples faces are being sucked quite terrifyingly into their phones. The fact that this obviously isn't happening in the sense that the naked eye can see it means that people in the photo when it was originally shot are completely unaware and just see it as someone simply looking at their phones. I think this concept is really interesting and helped me to come up with my own way of manipulating my photography.
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