Leo's Photo Portfolio

  PHOTO ESSAY For this project I wanted to make a series of photographs based on my experiences with eczema. For those who don’t know, eczema is “a chronic inflammatory skin condition causing itchy, dry, red, and inflamed skin that can crack, scale, or crusts”. It’s a condition that I’ve had since I was a baby and it used to be a way bigger pain to deal with than it is now. However, as with pretty much all chronic conditions, there are still frequent bad days. These photos are based on those kinds of days specifically. Instead of showing the rashes however, I chose to show the paint and discomfort in those areas via covering them with flowers. The flowers I chose to draw are Petunias because in floriography, a language of flowers stemming from the Victorian period, Petunias can mean irritation, anger, and resentment. The reason I chose to portray this issue through flowers is because I’ve always had a love for them and I have a fascination with Floriography as a whole being used to...

      This work was inspired by my boyfriend and I's morning routine. Both of us have a lot of products and not a lot of time in the morning to get ready, so I wanted to capture the sheer amount of stuff we use. I also wanted to capture the difference in our products between his wavy hair and face acne care versus my straight hair and eczema. I feel like with how cramped we are in the dorm, our sink becomes a good representation of who we are and what we care about when it comes to our bodies and presentation of ourselves. Not only the skincare as I mentioned, but also the rubber gloves hanging up that we use for washing dishes because both of us have issues with different textures. The skull soap dispenser my partner bought because he likes goth and halloween everything. the shared toothbrush mug with our toothpaste in it. I also wanted to keep my figure and camera in the shot because I'm always looking at myself in the mirror, so I kept myself looking the mirror. I was ...

 

 

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