Naperville Photographer – The Forgotten – Conceptual Photography

As a photographer, it is easy to lose my creativity in the hum drum of “work”. Session after session, and it is easy to turn into more of a production house as opposed to an artist.  There just isn’t time to be as creative as I would like.  I’m always looking to grow as an artist, to try something new.  It is what has led to past advancements and change in styles from me.  Now a days I’m really drawn to conceptual photography.  I always get images in my head with no idea who to actually get them out, so I wanted to try my hand at a 100% original conceptual image.  A little girl/doll in a forgotten toy box.

This is pretty much the image I had in my head with the light streaming through the lock.

 

In order to make this image, I had to take a bunch of pictures to create the box, the toys, the lock, etc.  These were the original pictures I used:

 

As you can tell, I had to do a lot of work on perspectives and editing.  To make the box was the hardest part as my original pictures were not at the right angles, so I had to manipulate the perspectives a lot.  I’m so proud of myself for the end result.  Same with the lock.  The original picture was straight on, but I think I made it realistically skewed from the correct angle.

 

Now for the story telling aspect of this series.

 

There once was a forgotten doll.   Abandoned to the box of memories and past, of childhood and wonder, of past and forgotten.  Forever sleeping in a time of limbo where she waits in sleep with dreams of hope.

 

But then she was awakened by a stream of light.  Something she had only dared to hope for in her doll dreams, for the light baring down on her could mean that something is changing.  That there is life outside.

 

Once she reached the lock, she saw that indeed there was reason to hope.  Someone was there.  Outside her forgotten box.  Perhaps someone to open the box.  Perhaps someone to find her.  Perhaps someone to make her no longer forgotten, but remembered.