Blog 1 : Visual Thinking
When people see this photograph shown in reference 1 many would think that its only a fashion promotion, but if you look closely at the image and brainstorm deep in this image you could find many hidden messages representing today’s life .
As a photography and visual thinking student this photo represents to me how many individuals in today’s world are fake and want to be seen how social media and top leading companies around the world portrait how the perfect person is. The plastic manicans represent those people who judge us and are seen by the community as the perfect ones and as shown in the image they don’t only come in one way shape of form but in various ways that we can get influenced a little bit from all of them.
These perfect people portrayed from these social media platforms are shown in various ways, for example being perfectly built , play some kind of sports , be the brightest in the class, earn the best grades in class and attend parties with the most famous and rich people in the country . Unfortunately although they may be seen as perfect by many , like everyone else they also have their own personal problems and in spite the fact that they are always laughing and seem happy, they may be living a very difficult life. Unfortunately due to advertising being very influential in the last few years, in my opinion they are acting as way of propaganda were many young and senior individuals are influenced from. Unfortunately we are losing many open minded people everyday which in today’s society are seen as strange or weird . The image shows to us how the women walks,what kind of clothes she is wearing and her posture and these can been as a metaphor of how she is influenced by the manicans and unfortunately she has fallen in the trap to copy them .
The umbrella but could be seen as hint that there is still hope for change and that there are still people who think with their minds and don’t talk and write how others want them to.Another hint which could be seen as a sign of hope is that the women is walking to the East , the East could be a sign of new hope were the sun rises everyday to provide us with warmth and light and we could unlock our inner potential.
Although the independent and open minded are seen as the black sheep of the community, they live life the way they want to live and not how it is portrayed to them from television or social media or how it is told to them from others . These people are able to make their own decisions , and don’t care how they are seen and judged by others . They listen to everyone’s point of view and are not biased towards one movement this happens very especially in Malta and in my opinion that is regressing our culture to keep up with the modernizing world .
Visual Thinking 