The others

This project is all about how we see other people. We have to show diversity in the 21st century in our photography by recording our experiences, documenting our findings, explore the impact of words, actions and behaviours on 'others' By the term 'the others' I mean, different cultures, gender, sexuality, religion etc...We are to pick one or several of these and put our ideas into our work. When we first got told about this project I was excited because I enjoy the thought of seeing other peoples views on things like this and I think it's a good idea to put points across however I feel this task may be quite a tough one because, 1, we have such a limited amount of time and 2, it's quite hard to find lots of different cultures in a place like Plymouth. However, I kind of have an idea for this project, I am not certain on it yet but I feel as if it would be quite a cool concept. My idea is to get a few different models and have them wear different headdresses that different cultures wear, but focus on their eyes in the images. So it would be a portrait shoot, preferably in a studio but if not then somewhere else. This shoot would be similar to the work of Steve McCurry, who does portraits of different cultured people. Much like these two photo's he took. As you can see, in his images he really focuses on the eyes, as soon as you look at the photo you are drawn to their eyes, which is what I like about the photo's.