Friday, 28 March 2014

Selfies.

The theme for the exhibition will be Selfies. In the last year selfies have become a big part of modern culture, even earning the title of Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2013.
At the Oscars ceremony earlier this month Ellen De Generes took a selfie with a group of actors and actresses at the ceremony, with the goal of creating the most retweeted selfie ever. They succeeded with a total of over 2 million retweets before the ceremony had even finished.

 However, there will be a little twist to the theme. We’ll be focussing more on the idea of a Conceptual Selfie. Photographs by Ben Toms in Garage magazine were the first images we were shown that portray the idea of conceptual selfies. The idea is to have the face shown in an unusual way, which could entail it being made up or covered by a variety of items and materials or by distorted photography.


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