Before I start planning, I need a good idea. And this is, of course, the most difficult part. But it’s also the most challenging and fun for me. I like complex things and the more complex my idea is, the more I enjoy it.

With this set I loosely followed up on my treatment of the “History of Art”. It is a long-term project where I am inspired by individual artistic periods in the history of art. The file that preceded this one is called Abstraction.

I wanted to cross the line from minimalism and start working more with colour and props. The Pop Art era has been on my mind for a long time.

Implementation

So I took this series of photos in my living room. I painted the background with my own painter’s paint, my friends used black body paint (to make the other colors stand out, there’s no other meaning to it), and I used props that I had on hand or that my friends brought. I also created the hairstyles myself. For example, the haircut for the Shopping photo took almost 2 hours! Who would also wind their hair on a polystyrene circle from Bauhaus. Similarly, it took me a few hours to glue the circle-shaped office adhesives on our living room wall :-).

Moodboard

A moodboard is actually a visual plan of what you’re going to shoot. Today I can’t even go on a small photo shoot without it. Thanks to it, I not only know what I’m going to shoot, but I also know how the whole scene will look, how I’m going to light it, what poses I want the model to strike, I know the color scheme, the space, what to bring and other necessary information.

I create Moodboard mainly as a kind of brainstorming. I save ideas for a long time and when the time is right, I start pulling them out and stacking them side by side. I usually use Pinterest or Instagram as a source of inspiration. I put the photos side by side and in the end I know exactly what the final project will look like.