"Fear Photography"

Last week we were given the weekly assignment to photograph an image that empowered "FEAR".  One of the first actions i took towards this was to ask questions. What makes us scared?  After interrogating a few of my friends with the usual results, (spiders, death, kidnapped, creepy men and even clowns) I decided to make a more Internal approach.

I fear Helplessness. Forced into a situation in which you have no control of what is being done to you or any means of escaping.

rough draft of scene/setting

^^This is the first rough concept Idea. Using Chains and other rough materials the subject would be bound in a small dark enclosure. The idea being to allow the shadows of the image to play with the imagination of its audience. Free to interpretation. Torture tools displayed to increase the feelings of unease and gore. I had even planned for there to be dog bowls and dog collars to enhance the "Helplessness" and lack of control our subject has.

This is a NOT the final product merely showing off the set design and make up of our subject. Due to physical limitations we could not acquire the type of metal chains I had envisioned. However we made do with what we had and I believe it paid off.  An on set decision I had to "gruff up" the scene even more was to gather Dirt and literally throw it all over the set, and our subject. Almost instantly gave the scene a much darker turn. The tools menacingly placed in a view that can be easily spotted by the viewer.      >>

^^ This is the FINAL Image (no editing apart from taking the image in black and white) Just to clarify the original image is actually a lot darker than the uploaded version. Keeping that in mind, I'm very happy with the final product. ( i really wish this came out properly... so you'll just have to use your imagination to make it far more shadowed in the dungeon.)