Sunday, February 15, 2015

Monica Fowlkes - Weekly Artist Post #5





My Favorite Color Was Yellow is a limited edition high quality photo book, self-published in an edition of 500. It will be published in English consisting of an essay, quotes and 70 color photographs.  After a period of documenting Kirsty began to probe deeper and the title of the book “My Favorite Color Was Yellow” reflects the theme at the heart of the book - a lack of choice. Kirsty offers us a sensitive and intimate glimpse into the lives of these girls own private worlds.

Photographer Kirsty Mackay set out to photograph girls with their pink possessions as a way to understand how this one color has become dominant. Working over a five year period, making portraits of the girls in their bedrooms and on the High St, combined with research.

I really like the theme and the research the photographer has put into these series of photographs.  Researching how something as simple as color plays such an important role in the separation of males and female.  I also really enjoyed the simplicity and normal aura these pictures give off.

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