Tragic Asylum - A Portraiture Series Part 8/10 : Heretique
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0.000 HBDTragic Asylum - A Portraiture Series Part 8/10 : Heretique
## Context and Background The year is 2007. I'm in my second year of University. I am studying an Undergraduate Degree in Visual Art, and I'm taking a digital photography class. I am tasked with making a photo book. The theme is portraiture. These are those images. An essay should accompany this body of work, I'm told. There should be a theme that ties it all together. I have no idea what, or who to use as a portrait subject; other than those surrounding me in my class. I'm interested in the imagery evoked by an enormous cohort of "Gothic Metal", and I use this as my basis, with my visual style leading more to Romanticism than Goya. As we'll see throughout this series of images, however; there's a bit of obvious darkness throughout! Each image is inspired by a single song. ## Image 8: Heretique A very literal interpretation of the misnomers of the "Gothic", throwing a pentagram into the mix. This was to create a casual link with the "anti-church", and an embrace of "the darnkess". I'm still not entirely sure what I was trying to achieve with this image, inspired by the Tristania song of the same name. It is about surrender, to some extent <em>"Accept the modesty / Falter through spears of the pain / Exhausted hours .. exhausted hours / Nothing from thy world will remain thine / except the privilege to die.</em>" That last name really says it all - and was a reflection on what I was experiencing at the time - confusion over my father's death, and struggling from a brush with that very same fate myself. ## More About this image Shot again with that magical D80 - a camera I sorely miss! I wish I could remember what lens I used for this shoot - it comes back as one of the best "usable shots" : "shots taken" ratio. Thank goodness for meta-data. Lens used: (the meta data doesn't actually tell me!) There's focal ranges of 28-90 for this shoot, so I'm going to hazard a guess and say it was the Nikon 28-135 which was a popular kit lens at the time I took this shoot. I wasn't using anything high end at the time.  ## Track that inspired this image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOvh7k6jeSc <em>This is just a link to the song - this is not my video.</em>
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