Samuel Fosso: Final Project Inspiration
The photographer I chose as my source of inspiration for my final portrait project is Samuel Fosso. After looking through a lot of Fosso's work, I found many of his portraits align with the idea I had planned for my final portrait project. For my final project, I wanted to take portraits, all in a very similar sort of setup and with models posed essentially the same way, in order to mimic a school yearbook portrait. Each portrait would have a very generic and expected background for school photos, but in each portrait, my subject will be portraying a different "character" or "personality type" through aspects such as their expression, attire, and even hairstyle. These different personality types will be conveyed through somewhat stereotypical portrails of a different personality types within a high school like, the "jock", "nerd", or "artist". The reason I thought Samuel Fosso's work would be a good source of inspiration for...