Self Portrait Project

1. Self Portrait
Nyle Amin

2. My Photographers: Eugenia Loli
• The artist I will focus most of my work on is Eugenia Loli
• Loli creates modern vintage collages wit meanings behind
them which she does by setting them on a narrative scene as if
there was something more to the picture than that’s
presented
• She describes some of her work to be witty or sarcastic and
others horrific with a sense of danger or urgency where as the rest are “chill”
• She makes her collages by finding an image to base he collages on and then builds
upon it. sometimes she doesn’t have a concrete idea of what her final image is
going to looks like. After “a lot of juxtaposing”, sometimes the base image might
not even be part of the final composition

3. My Photographers: Christopher Bucklow
• My work will be will also be
influenced by Christopher Bucklow
• Bucklow is a “cameraless”
photographer
• In his series “Guests”, he creates one-off, life-size
portraits using a pinhole camera

4. My Background
• I wanted my backgrounds to be personal to me
• My parents are both from Asia: my mother from
Malaysia and my father from India
• I also visit Greece and Ghana on holidays and hold
special memories for me and my family
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5. My Portrait
• I tried to emulate both Loli’s and Bucklows
work into my portrait
• I based this on:

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• To do so, I found a picture of a of a galaxy on Google
and used it as a background on Photoshop
• On top on this, I layered a picture of myself I had taken
earlier and used the magnetic lasso tool to select my
face
• When I had marching ants, I deleted the selected area
of the layer to reveal the galaxy underneath
• I then selected both the background and the layer and
used the magnetic lasso tool to select my whole body
and the, with the move tool, I dragged the image onto
my backgrounds

7. Portrait Contact Sheet
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8. My Foreground
• In the foreground of my images, I wanted people
looking at me similar to how Eugenia Loli had in her
collages
• I used celebrities I look up to or have grown up with well
as photographing friends interacting with the image

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• The images I used for my foreground are celebrities I
have grown up with.
• I have also used my friends in the foreground

10. Composition Contact Sheet
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11. The Compositions I Didn’t Like

12. My Final Piece: 1
I have chosen this composition becauseit is the most similar to Loli's work. This is because I have started
with a base image and have incorporated other images to create some sort of story. The figure seems to be coming out
of the water and the figures in the foreground seem to be looking at it. Also, in the background I have the taj mahal as
if it is in the distance although the base image is of Malaysia. I think this is a good self portrait because it includes very
personal subjects as well of convey my Asian background.

13. My Final Piece: 2
I chose this composition because, in my opinion, the
figures in the foreground on this composition work well with the
base picture. I also think that the portrait is similar to Loli’s work