Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Social Action and Social Media unit: Sexism - Photography

I took these photos to match my slogan "This isn't an invitation" to show that women who wear short skirts aren't asking to be raped.




















These two pictures were taken by myself of a women wearing a dress with the majority of her legs exposed. The message behind these photos is that for a woman what something bad happens to her, what she is wearing should not be the main focus or what is blamed, the one who should be blamed should be the attacker.

                                                                       Final Photo
 
This is my final retouched photo which I will be using for my poster. I chose this image specifically because the legs look long making the skirt look shorter unlike my other one which actually made the skirt look longer. The reason why I wanted the skirt to be short is because I wanted it to portray the message that it doesn't matter what you wear, it's never right to blame the way a woman dresses for abuse, sexual assault or rape.
What I like about this image is the simplicity, there's not too much going on and when the writing is added there won't be any distraction from it. 
What I would have improved would be the variety of shots, I could have asked my model to do a wider variety of leg poses or I could have done a couple of outfit changes to show what the message is about with a different variety of clothing, saying it doesn't matter what you wear because no form of dress is asking another to harm you.



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