John Clang has joined the global Hopenhagen effort with a beautiful stop-motion short film he created to bring awareness to the United Nations' climate change conference currently underway in Copenhagen. In addition to the film, Clang shot and created a series of posters that bring to life the visual representation of Hopenhagen's citizens. John Clang has conveyed the coming together of the world's citizens at this seminal moment. It is an idea that captures the diversity of humankind and how together, we can all do something. Many similar works has been created and can be found on pinterest and trough all these art pieces created using photographed portraits of individuals from different ages, race, and gender to collectively bring them together and create one human face. It represents humanity and all our individual identities together to make one. This goes hand in hand with the Miaz brothers of how we are all equal no matter what our culture, age or race.
I have found that there are many photographers that try to reinforce the idea that your identity can be hidden and people may be discrete or feel uncomfortable to express who they really are, whereas others will use different forms such as clothing, patterns (Islamic patterns), text (tattoos or biblical quotation) and many other things to symbolize and reflect to others who they really are. He uses the effortless ripped effect to combine the images together to represent that it is very easy for us as humans to come together as one and we unintentionally already compete each other for example, the way in which the eyes perfectly connect with the other eye although they may look very different to each other.
I have found that there are many photographers that try to reinforce the idea that your identity can be hidden and people may be discrete or feel uncomfortable to express who they really are, whereas others will use different forms such as clothing, patterns (Islamic patterns), text (tattoos or biblical quotation) and many other things to symbolize and reflect to others who they really are. He uses the effortless ripped effect to combine the images together to represent that it is very easy for us as humans to come together as one and we unintentionally already compete each other for example, the way in which the eyes perfectly connect with the other eye although they may look very different to each other.
For this response I tried to incorporate the idea of using individual identities into one. I achieved this by taking a self-portrait of many different people as possible that are from different races and then ensured that they were all the same size using Photoshop. Then I cropped out a section of each persons face making sure that it is in line with the one before and after it to make it look realistic. For the image to look even I also measured each section using a rectangle box. To make the image all come together, I copy the section I want of the face and then paste it in the place that I want. Overall, the response was very interesting and used 15 different identities to make one face and it also shows us the different cultures that are available within our society. The concept that every person has different colour hair, eyes, different shaped lips etc. yet we are able to connect and make one is very mind-blowing.
I have tried to create a response with the images that I have digitally so I tried it with only using paper so I printed the image that I created and tore each section out because it would be more challenging to start from scratch and see which part of the face fits more and I will only be consuming more paper. I decided to tear it out roughly rather than cut it out neatly to because it would be a different approach where it creates a effortless effect that makes it seem coincidental. However, I feel like the first response that was made on Photoshop was more successful because it looked neater and fitted more effectively.
This response from a different artist that I found on pinterest has a similiar concept of bringing different features of different people together, to make one face. However, they used different shapes and sizes of the sections and composed it in a different way. Spme images are overlayed on top of each other and there is not a consitent pattern of scale through the image. Again it adds emphasis to the effortless part and however we looked like we could still fit in together. Although this image has only used men in the picture, you can still see the different ages, races and characters. I have tried the above experiment and now i would like to see how layering the sections similar to this way would look like.
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Here is an attempt of creating the above image by the photographer. I used the same portraits that i had and printed the faces out and ensured that they were all around the same size, this was quiete difficult as people had different shape sizes. I then cut out different parts of their face and used one full face to begin with. With the cut out pieces i began trying to find the most suitable position for it where it fits in very well. Whilst doing that I also made sure that they were multiculture for example, the darker skin tone against the lighter skin tone. I did this because when looking at the overall image you can easily ntice the different cultures within the picture. For my image to turn out succesful, when taking the pictures i tried to ask people that looked ery different from eachother for example, the hair type/style, colours worn, different eye colours, different shape eyes, lips, nose etc. and overall i think that this was a sucessful peice that portrays a significant meaning that is needed to be shown and shared within our society.