For my first two images I wanted to imitate Peejet’s appropriation images by photoshopping myself and others into well known images. I really liked the humour he portrayed in his images so I wanted mimic that. The first one, a still from Stormzy’s music video ‘Shut Up’, has mine and two friend’s faces in the background. This image could have been done better if I had taken photo’s of mine and my friend’s faces instead of cutting them from pre-existing photos.
The second image is a still from a famous scene in Pulp Fiction. I like this image a lot more than my first as it looks a lot more realistic and the image of me that I photoshopped in is better quality as I took it for the purpose of the appropriated image.
My third image is it the style of Salvador Dali. I really liked how he’d take random items, put them together and give them some sort of new meaning. I wanted to photograph a piece like his Lobster Telephone but to have some form of meaning to it. I came up with this idea whilst hungover and though ‘what if I put a load of drugs on a plate and photograph it?’* and it came out looking pretty cool. I set it out like a gourmet meal with the intention of it meaning that, to a drug addict, their fix is more important than food.
*only the small amount of weed is actually real, I don’t sniff coke or take smack
