These are two of the successful final outcomes from my digital editing. I mainly used tone selection and layering in photoshop to separate pieces of the figure in the original image and offset them. I think this clearly depicts disconnect of the self, as negative space is created. The incomplete layers taken from the original image include the appearance of pixels which could be interpreted as a glitch. I like the idea of the images looking unintentional in some ways, as this links with the lack of control we have over disconnection between ourselves and reality or other people, due to lack of control over technological and digital advances.
The inverted images were most effective to me, as they remove the figure from any background or context, and create an almost etherial or unreal sense of space. The shadows in the original images became offset figures, disconnected from the original, in themselves. It reminded me of Francesca Woodman’s photography and use of long exposures (in terms of effect not process) ideas around the self in her work.
Sophia Tate 