Artist research- Mafalda Rakos
The name of this project is called ‘Fade Out’ and the images that Rakos takes are a representation of her own life experiences of living with an eating disorder, using a model to almost recreate everyday difficulties that someone with an eating disorder experience. However, in this instance Rakos allowed her models to take control of the images, through allowing them to control the way that they posed and props that they used for the photographs.
I was especially taken with the work that Rakos takes, when I first caught sight of the image above (right), it was this image that stood out to me the most, not just for the fact that the individual is half dressed, but because of the way it had been photographed and what the true meaning behind the image.
Similar to the work of Gerard in the way that the individual is photographed; never with their face showing is something that stayed with me and was something that I considered using within my own work. I saw this as a way of hiding the identity of the individual, not allowing mental health illness to take away their identity.
I was especially taken with the work that Rakos takes, when I first caught sight of the image above (right), it was this image that stood out to me the most, not just for the fact that the individual is half dressed, but because of the way it had been photographed and what the true meaning behind the image.
Similar to the work of Gerard in the way that the individual is photographed; never with their face showing is something that stayed with me and was something that I considered using within my own work. I saw this as a way of hiding the identity of the individual, not allowing mental health illness to take away their identity.
