Fashion in culture
My work on fashion in culture wasn't inspired by any particular photographer or artist, but due to the convenience of me visiting another country.
I had the opportunity to visit Oman which enabled me to explore the fashion culture within the country. Since Oman is a Muslim country, it was difficult to take pictures freely of their citizens, but I was able to observe and capture some of the people and tourists of the country. When I wasn't able to take pictures of the people, I used my sister as the main model of my photographs. The first thing I noticed is the lack of colour, the majority of the locals there wore very neutral colours such as black, white and grey, rarely opting for anything brighter however, Oman has a variety of ethnicities among the locals who choose to work in the country and compared to the locals, are dressed in much brighter and colourful clothing. Furthermore, compared to London, Oman had a much brighter, almost ethereal feel in the natural lighting outside, the top row of the images below helps to showcase that.
I feel like this shoot was partially successful, I was able to capture images showing the different colours and dress sense of the people in Oman, but the if I were to have the chance to go back to Oman and re-do the shoot, I would try to capture better images of the actual locals of Oman instead of tourists and my sister.
I had the opportunity to visit Oman which enabled me to explore the fashion culture within the country. Since Oman is a Muslim country, it was difficult to take pictures freely of their citizens, but I was able to observe and capture some of the people and tourists of the country. When I wasn't able to take pictures of the people, I used my sister as the main model of my photographs. The first thing I noticed is the lack of colour, the majority of the locals there wore very neutral colours such as black, white and grey, rarely opting for anything brighter however, Oman has a variety of ethnicities among the locals who choose to work in the country and compared to the locals, are dressed in much brighter and colourful clothing. Furthermore, compared to London, Oman had a much brighter, almost ethereal feel in the natural lighting outside, the top row of the images below helps to showcase that.
I feel like this shoot was partially successful, I was able to capture images showing the different colours and dress sense of the people in Oman, but the if I were to have the chance to go back to Oman and re-do the shoot, I would try to capture better images of the actual locals of Oman instead of tourists and my sister.
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Manipulation:
The image above is of a manipulation that I did in photoshop, I compiled all the photographs that I managed to capture and cropped them so that it consisted of images of individual people, I got a picture of the flag of Oman and used it as the background for my manipulation, I then proceeded to layer all of the cropped images on top and changed the opacity to 50% making it apart of the flag. This manipualtion was to boldly represent what I found in Oman in terms of their fashion culture.
Traditional outfits
After going to Oman, I wanted to explore other culture's traditional fashion. Although London is very diverse, I had a difficult time trying to find people who has traditional clothing and were willing to model, I was able to find a few people who didn't mind being photographed and this was the outcome. I wanted to showcase how diverse London is and the best way to do this is to look at their traditional clothes and compare them to show how different they are to each other.
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