Mother Earth Primary Function: Picha by Naseer Behbehani

Mother Earth Primary Function: Picha by Naseer Behbehani is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Upigaji Picha na Uhariri wa Picha Competition Category.

FedhaUpigaji Picha· 2020

Mother Earth Primary Function: Picha

by Naseer Behbehani

Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award Winner in Upigaji Picha Category

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The Design

About Mother Earth Primary Function: Picha

Mama Dunia ni picha ya mtu iliyopigwa studioni inayoonyesha sayari katika umbo la binadamu kama mwanamke mwenye afya mbaya. Vipodozi vinatumia rangi za kijani, samawati na kahawia kuwakilisha bahari, mimea na udongo. Petali za maua yanayonyauka zimewekwa kichwani mwa mfano kuashiria ugonjwa. Sura ya mfano inaonyesha huzuni na udhaifu. Mwangaza uliundwa kwa kutumia octabox moja kubwa juu ya mfano na taa moja kwenye mandharinyuma. Picha ya mwisho iliboreshwa kwa programu ya kuhariri kidijitali. Picha hii inaunganisha uchafuzi wa mazingira na hisia za binadamu na kuvutia usikivu kuhusu mabadiliko ya tabianchi.

The Recognition

About the Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award

Mother Earth Primary Function: Picha ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa ya ajabu unaotolewa kwa miundo ya hali ya juu kabisa, ya kupendeza na ya kuvutia. Washindi wa Fedha ni kazi zinazong'aa mno na bunifu kupita kiasi zinazoonyesha utaalamu bora, kipaji na busara ya wabunifu wao. Mother Earth Primary Function: Picha inatarajiwa kuwa kazi nzuri ya kuigwa ambayo ni ya kitaalamu kwa kiasi kikubwa na yenye ubunifu wa kina. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award ni uvumbuzi unaojulikana sana na kupendwa, unaonufaisha na kupanua mipaka ya sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia. Mother Earth Primary Function: Picha ni kazi inayotamaniwa mno inayochochea hamu, huleta hisia chanya na huzua mshangao na mastaajabu.

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.