Just had an idea for the "Lost Innocence" photography project. What if instead of making portraits in one place I did it in several countries. What if I did 5 portraits in a similar connected style in 5 different countries. Not sure where those countries would be probably all in South East Asia, Possibly places like Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal? Showing the workers in multitude of different countries would reinforce the ugliness and universality of this type of abuse.
I am thinking of doing tight head shots, in color with a high end digital camera possibly a 50mb Hasselblad. I would then make extremely large wall sized prints for exhibition. The idea is to hit the gallery viewer over the head, slap them into being aware of these abused and used up lives. People in this world are used up, spit out and forgotten, the photographs would become a living memory of who they are-were and their importance.
Note* "Lost Innocence" deals with the forgotten lives of the poor young women who are condemned to live and die in lowest form of sex worker life, the brothel worker.
I am thinking of doing tight head shots, in color with a high end digital camera possibly a 50mb Hasselblad. I would then make extremely large wall sized prints for exhibition. The idea is to hit the gallery viewer over the head, slap them into being aware of these abused and used up lives. People in this world are used up, spit out and forgotten, the photographs would become a living memory of who they are-were and their importance.
Note* "Lost Innocence" deals with the forgotten lives of the poor young women who are condemned to live and die in lowest form of sex worker life, the brothel worker.
