The Future is Canceled- Recreated

The portrait I chose to recreate was is from Cornelia Hediger's collection "The Future is Canceled." It is an extremely low angle shot of a woman in a skirt against a battered white ceiling. The woman's body language and expression make her seem as though she is nervous and self-conscious, which is further emphasized by how exposed she is to the camera since the shot goes right up her skirt. She is not looking into the camera, which suggests that something or someone outside the frame is catching her attention and possibly causing her distress.

Hediger's work absolutely swept me off my feet when I first came across her, so I knew coming into this assignment that I wanted to use her work as my example. She captures whimsy, terror, confusion and intimacy in her subjects, and includes many creepy and quirky intricacies in her photos. I love everything about her style.

For my photo, I tried to maintain a very similar composition but substituted a male subject in place of her female. However, I opted to keep a similar dress style in order to capture the same exposed view from below. Furthermore, many of Hediger's photos seem to question traditional gender roles, so I thought keeping the skirt was a fitting addition to my twist on the photo. I also attempted to keep the body language similar in order to maintain the same mood.

I hope I will find a chance to work with her photography more in the future, because it contains so many things that I adore and hope to be able to accomplish on my own one day.