Statement of Intent

My theme is Islam which is a peaceful religion. Throughout this project, I’m going to try to show people that being a Muslim is something very peaceful. I’m trying to make the images strong and powerful.  The photographers styles that I really like are Hassan Hajjaj and Manal Al Dowayan because Hassan Hajjaj uses bright dynamic colours and borders which illustrates the colourful and cheerful personality of Muslims, therefore demonstrating that they are peaceful and fun. I admire Manal al Dowayan's style where he uses objects to cover parts of a woman's face, his images are black and white whereas I will be using a similar style but using colour and more dramatic. I will try to experiment with more techniques, texture and style e.g. using paints or other media on top of in addition to my photographs. 


In my final piece I will try to portray a different image from the media and expose the reality and will be showing two different images to explain this. It will provide with the truth about women in Islam. The media’s image is going to be of a Muslim woman wearing a veil showing the bars in between her eyes and rope tied on her wrists, which conveys to us that a Muslim woman has no voice and can’t be free. This style will be done in a similar manner to Manal Al-Dowayan; it will be black and white using shocking, powerful, range of imagery. The peaceful true, this image is going to be a Muslim woman wearing bright, dramatic and colourful clothes with white feathers of peace thrown over her which are a global symbol of peace. This style will be like Sara Shamsavari.

These two images will display to people what the media has accomplished portraying Muslims in a negative fashion and what the reality of being a Muslim women means.

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