Mother Earth Fungsi Utama: Fotograf by Naseer Behbehani

Mother Earth Fungsi Utama: Fotograf by Naseer Behbehani is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Perak in Reka Bentuk Fotografi dan Manipulasi Foto Competition Category.

PerakFotografi· 2020

Mother Earth Fungsi Utama: Fotograf

by Naseer Behbehani

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Fotografi Category

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The Design

About Mother Earth Fungsi Utama: Fotograf

Ibu Pertiwi ialah fotograf potret studio yang mempersembahkan planet ini dalam bentuk manusia sebagai seorang wanita yang uzur. Solekan menggunakan tona hijau, biru dan perang untuk mewakili lautan, tumbuhan dan tanah. Kelopak bunga yang layu diletakkan di atas kepala model untuk menggambarkan penyakit. Ekspresi model menyampaikan kesedihan dan kerapuhan. Pencahayaan dicipta dengan satu octabox besar pada model dan satu lampu pada latar belakang. Imej akhir diperhalusi dengan perisian penyuntingan digital. Fotograf ini mengaitkan pencemaran dengan emosi manusia dan menarik perhatian terhadap perubahan iklim.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Mother Earth Fungsi Utama: Fotograf ialah pemenang A' Design Award Perak, pengiktirafan yang sangat berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk bertaraf tinggi, indah dan mengagumkan. Pemenang Perak ialah karya yang amat cemerlang dan sangat kreatif yang menggambarkan kepakaran, bakat dan ketajaman fikiran yang luar biasa pereka bentuknya. Mother Earth Fungsi Utama: Fotograf diharapkan menjadi karya yang menakjubkan, contoh teladan, sangat profesional dan sangat inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Perak ini ialah ciptaan yang sangat ketara dan dikagumi yang memberi manfaat kepada dan memajukan batas seni, sains, reka bentuk dan teknologi. Mother Earth Fungsi Utama: Fotograf ialah ciptaan yang sangat dicemburui yang membangkitkan keinginan, membawa perasaan positif dan mencetuskan rasa hairan serta kagum.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The goal is to transfer earth pollution suffering into human emotion, to grab people attention to a raising problem of modern life style.
Dimensions & Packaging: Camera used: Canon 5d Mark ii, with canon 85/1.2 @ s100, f9, ISO 50
Software used: Lightroom and photoshop
Tags: Portrait, Earth, Studio, Photography, Makeup, Nature, Pollution, People, Woman
Production Technology: I sketched the idea for the makeup artist to understand the concept. The colors are representation of nature, and the dead flowers on the head of the model to show that she is dying. I asked the model to show vulnerability and sadness. I used one big octabox on the model and one light on the backdrop.
Design Challenge: The hardest part of this project was to find an African model. At the time of making this project, modeling agencies wast not common. So finding a model of a specific look was difficult.
Research: How earth would look like in a human form is the main is the core of this project. So, I mainly used google to view other artist approach of this concept, to get inspiration. The I did sketches of my own to show them to the makeup artist so she could understand my vision. I decided to hire an African model since Africa is the most connected with nature than others. I used dying petals as a representation of sickness. The green, blue and brown ware used as the colors of nature.
Inspiration: When I was a kid winter used to be colder and longer. Climate is actually changing due to global worming. Mother earth is dying and we are the ones responsible for that. So I though to represent planet earth as a sick woman waring nature, with makeup inspired by oceans, plants and soil. I choose an African model, as for me, Africa is the closest place on earth to pure nature.
Project Duration: The photograph took around 3 hours for the makeup and shooting in studio and 2 hours of retouching. It was shot in Kuwait 2015.
Operation Flow: Mother Earth photograph main perps is to engage with the viewers emotionally. So the best way to view this photograph is to look hard to the model's face and try to read her emotions.
Team Members: Makeup artist: Fatima Yousif
Model: Dalal
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Naseer Behbehani, Mother Earth, 2015.
Image #2: Photographer Naseer Behbehani, Progress 1, 2015.
Image #3: Photographer Naseer Behbehani, Progress 2, 2015.
Image #4: Photographer Naseer Behbehani, Progress 3, 2015.