During my Creative Concepts class at the Art Institute, my midterm was to create an awareness photo to portray something that needs help in the world. I chose to do breast cancer awareness. I feel that breast cancer is a big part of our world these days. You hear about more and more women getting breast cancer. My mom had bladder cancer and battled through the fight. That is what inspired me to do this shoot in the first place. 1 in every 8 women gets breast cancer in their lifetime. So bringing to my awareness, I chose my model Ghazlyn Clayton. I picked her for multiple different reasons but the number one reason was because she was on the flat chested side. When you get breast cancer sometimes to help get rid of it you have to have the breast removed. Considering my mom won “the fight”. I chose a boxing theme to help represent fighting, but I also used pink fighting equipment because pink is a nationwide color that represents breast cancer. For the midterm picture, I used a wrist wrap as a prop because it looks like a pink ribbon. Everyone knows that a pink ribbon represents breast cancer and since we weren’t allowed to use text in our midterm image I felt that this best suited the criteria. Ghazlyn and I worked together at styling considering she is a fashion major at the Art Institute. I used a beauty dish off to the side to create some harsh lighting. We had a lot of fun working together trying to come up with the best poses and stances that represented fighting. Yet, we had to make sure that she was covered. To continue on with this project, our final was to create a triptych, but text was allowed to be incorporated. So using the images of actual boxing equipment I used photos of the boxing stances and I feel that it turned out fairly well.
