Monday 6 December 2010

GROUP PROJECT – THE LAST SHOT



To quote Robert’s writing from our group blog: fourmat.blogspot.com

Final shoot: less flesh in the shots makes a difference, so we needed to ensure that any exposed flesh was well lit.

Composing the image to suggest a tension between the woman gazing at the priest whilst being held by the hand and in the loving? desiring? gaze of another woman.

Suggesting a conflict between the women and the priest, the church and beyond regarding their relationship? Sexuality?

There is an absence of rhetoric from the church about love between women, sex between women thus made invisible and therefore silenced. The image suggests all sorts of possible relationships between the characters. The priest is looking away which is significant - a way of ignoring, silencing the 'other' and not acknowledging their existence,

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