Lissy Elle Laricchia discovered photography when she was 13. For her it became an escape from the trials of life, it is a reason to get up in the morning. She loves to experiment, and uses photography as the excuse to explore unnatural things in the world. She is a self taught photographer and uses self portraiture as her genre. Her aim is to portray a world that's beautiful in it's tragedy. Lovely and lonely. Whimsical and dark.
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| Moodboard on Lissy Elle Laricchia |
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This photograph is shot on location. Objectively, there is a basket in the centre of the composition. This is placed on the floor of a forest/woods. The background is then filled up with trees that are branching out from the ground. This is an interesting composition, one of which Laricchia must have experimented with. In the foreground, to the left of the composition, there is a tree stump, which goes from the bottom of the photograph to the top. There is shallow depth of field, and the only part of the photograph in focus, is the basket. Within the basket, are 4 arms which appear to be coming out from it, all resting on the edge. As they are placed quite casually and appear relaxed, it creates a sense that the owner of the arms are limp and lifeless. Laricchia uses natural lighting present on the location, however, the photograph has a slight filter to it, which happens to have drained or enhanced certain tones. The brightness looks as though it has been turned down to create the dark mood, reflecting the scene. Subjectively, it creates a scenario of danger. The red staining on the arms could represent blood or scarring. There is an element of fairy tale to this photograph, the red representing red riding hood, therefore this photograph is a dark representation of this. It could portray the danger of these areas in reality, comparing to the story of little red riding hood, where it was normal to roam around in the woods for food. Personally, I admire the simplicity of the photograph, proving that you don't need to exaggerate the composition to achieve a desired outcome. What I have noticed throughout my photographer analysis, is that, to create an effective, fantasy like photograph, simple is always the best. The negative space around the subjects give the pieces an emptiness and deep mood which is what intrigues me about this area of photography.
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Above are the inspirations for my response. After further exploration into Lissy Elle's work, I came across these in which I would like to experiment with.
Responses; Below are a series of photographs that I shot in response to Lissy Elle Laricchia.
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| These series of photographs are my response for the photographer Lissy Elle Laricchia. For these photographs, I set up the studio slightly differently. I used an old bed sheet and hung it over the backdrop stand. I then placed the light, which was set on the model setting, behind the backdrop shining onto the bed sheet. Once I stood behind the backdrop, my shadow appeared. I found that standing closer to the backdrop created the most defined shadow. I experimented with different positions, thinking of the theme 'Weird and Wonderful.' My favourite, being the second to bottom, portrays the image of me being trapped behind the bed sheet. Subjectively, I feel that the backdrop could represent another world, something to which I am trapped in, similarly to Larrichia's pieces, they seemed to be wrapped up in a different world. The photographs almost seem reflective of certain events and imagination, this could then be a good way to express inner thoughts in a weird and abnormal way. Different positions that the model would make could represent an emotion or event in their life. I feel that this method could work really well as a different approach to story telling of an event or personal emotion. |
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