For my final project, I want to photograph people's eyes. I want to address different colored eyes, different aged eyes, and different gendered eyes. I want to make the same type of image but with different people. I am going to make the photos cropped to show only the eye of a person so not much else is revealed.
I wanted to do this for my project because of the monogram to which I wrote a response. The book was Blind by Sophie Calle. In her project, she asked blind people what the most beautiful thing in the world was, and she received a wide array of answers. No two people that she included in the book gave the same response. The book really opened my eyes (not to be crude) to the old saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." I have been thinking of this concept since looking through her work. So many people I love have struggled with accepting themselves and the way they look, but everyone is beautiful! We are not all beautiful in the same way, but we are all beautiful. I want the eyes to show everyone is different. Eyes, I believe, are like snowflakes in that no one has the same eyes. With our different eyes, we have different views. No two people view beauty exactly the same. No two people see the world exactly the same.
I also want to photograph eyes because I believe they are the entrance to the soul of a person. The first thing I notice when I see someone is their eyes. There is so much to be told about a person through their eyes. Emotions and feelings are sometimes easily detected through the way the eyes look. Sonder is the defined as the sudden realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. I feel this sensation every time I look into another person's eyes (although at times the eyes do not belong to a stranger). Sonder is a very humbling feeling that I think could be photographed through eyes.
I will accomplish this by asking people to photograph their eyes. I can use a cropping tool on either my phone or on the computer to get the images down to where I want them to be. I am willing to ask friends, family, even strangers in order to get all my photos.
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