Art through Activism Failure

Models: Ms. Alvarez and Amber

Location: Studio

For this assignment, Art through Activism, I really struggled in the beginning stages. I had no ideas for what to shoot and i didn't have a clear understanding of what to convey. I didn't want to make people who do have aids feel negatively and i also didn't want my models, who do/don't have aids feel uncomfortable being shot or being portrayed as having aids. I decided to do a series of the stereotypical person who would have aids. My ideas were to do a shot of a mother with aids and left her child behind, a transgender person struggling with having aids but is still a powerful person, as well as a homosexual male who had aids but still embraced life and love. The red chair would be apart of the shot and would symbolize the aids that they live day to day with. This shot worked really well for me, but it was also becoming too literal and straight-forward. So for this assignment, art through activism, i will be working on other social issues, not just ids o convey activism through art.