When I started to think and research for this project I had some different ideas to try. I wanted to take some pictures of a subject with a mask, and try to get some mysterious or creepy photograph, but unfortunately my subject was more concerned about looking pretty so the shooting ended up looking as a fashion one of a girl in a weird mask. But even if those photographs weren't what I was looking for I could save some of them, which, in a different style, they weren't looking so bad.
I also tried the doll photography ideas, but very soon I found it boring, as I didn't have any stuff to make a complete scene and take a real successful photo.
So I decided to focus on a different kind of photography: because I always been interested in portraits, specially when they are taken when the subjects weren't conscientious about it, I took my camera to the street to find my subjects.
Fortunately this idea worked much better than the rest. I could photograph people on the market, kids playing around, tattoo artists while working, kids on the skate park... Everyone doing their thing, which gave me what I was looking for, photographs of real people, with some kind of narrative quality attached to them, catching the "small great moments" of everyday life.
Finally I just touched them on photoshop to make them look more beautiful, looking for a older romantic look, similar to vintage photographs, with soft colors. (for this last movement I been inspired by the way O. Oprisco used color in his own works, which I really liked.)
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