innersense and old st cafe exhibitions

A sideways look at portraiture, this series explores the familiar form of a plastic toy doll. Using cropping and deliberate blurring of the images I am suggesting an ambiguity and an unnerving humanisation of the inanimate object. Although initially inspired by pregnancy, the photographs have evolved into an examination of the sinister, freakish nature of toys.
I enjoy the staged, dramatic effect created by use of both tungsten and natural light and am aiming to evoke a colour scheme perhaps more reminiscent of 1950’s Americana than the actual, unknown origins of this found object.