Monica Lazăr is retoucher based in Romania. While retouching is her full time job, photography and photo taking is still something she enjoys. Her photography isn't found on her website or instagram page where she pushes her business as a retoucher, however they can be found on her facebook page.
Once a food photographer, she went to self portraits to freedom within her editing and content.
She used photography as a way to express her anxieties and other intense feelings, much as I am doing with my own images.
Once a food photographer, she went to self portraits to freedom within her editing and content.
She used photography as a way to express her anxieties and other intense feelings, much as I am doing with my own images.
Her work is very similar to how I first wanted my images to look, which soon changed. It has more of that fantasy, glorious feel to them than what I have been working on, however I feel the emotion in both are strong.
This imagine in my eyes is undeniably beautiful. There isn't much information about her work online, however it's clear that they show distress and chaos, which seems to be representing what her mind feels like by the way that she holds her head. The location of a field could represent her experiencing a feeling of isolation and mentally segregated from society.
The colours are all rather earthy, making the image seem grounded, however the contents of the image contrast this greatly.
The environment she's places herself in isn't really one you'd be comfortable in, and you're more likely to take cover, however she seems familiar with the storms, embracing them even. To me this indicates that she's used to feeling anxious or as if her mind is in such a chaos.
This image is a contradiction of both peace and darkness, and at the same time an uncomfortable harmony between the two.
The dress and the editing creates a beauty within the image, creating a fantasy feeling. The image definitely doesn't feel realistic at all but I don't think that deters from the message or that it should be a direct representation of life.
This image has a different feeling to the one above yet they both have a beautiful aesthetic. This could be seen as glorifying mental health issues however I don't think that claim would be fair to the artist - she clearly felt that this was the best way to portray her feelings. This type of imagery tells me that she's accepted that mental illness is a part of her, which is rather sad but I also feel that mental illness has also become a part of my identity. Despite this understanding, I don't feel a large emission of anxiety or depression from this image, however I'm sure it could be read into to uncover these feelings. For example, she said as quoted above that the beauty within her images represent creating something beautiful out of something so painful.
In this image she is absolutely soaked with water on the edge of a sea, with a ship in the background, and so we assume she's washed up. The strange part, however, is that she seems full conscious yet she doesn't attempt to get up. She looks as if she's just contemplating everything rather than being in a state of shock or fear, which would be the normal human reaction. This again suggests the comfort of mental illness being the norm, that this isn't the first time she's experienced a feeling like this and so she just accepts it.
The constant blue tones offer a cold feeling to the image as well as making everything flow well on the eye. The cool tones mixed with the water give an even colder feeling as you can imagine the temperature she is experiencing.
She has again places herself in an undesirable place yet shows comfort or indifferent to being in that position.
While this photography interests me both visually and conceptually, it's very different to what I have been creating. However, the similarities are the underlying force and motivation behind the images are the same. I think this could be said for a lot of imagery, however because these are also self-portraits from a women I feel more connected to them.
The colours are all rather earthy, making the image seem grounded, however the contents of the image contrast this greatly.
The environment she's places herself in isn't really one you'd be comfortable in, and you're more likely to take cover, however she seems familiar with the storms, embracing them even. To me this indicates that she's used to feeling anxious or as if her mind is in such a chaos.
This image is a contradiction of both peace and darkness, and at the same time an uncomfortable harmony between the two.
The dress and the editing creates a beauty within the image, creating a fantasy feeling. The image definitely doesn't feel realistic at all but I don't think that deters from the message or that it should be a direct representation of life.
This image has a different feeling to the one above yet they both have a beautiful aesthetic. This could be seen as glorifying mental health issues however I don't think that claim would be fair to the artist - she clearly felt that this was the best way to portray her feelings. This type of imagery tells me that she's accepted that mental illness is a part of her, which is rather sad but I also feel that mental illness has also become a part of my identity. Despite this understanding, I don't feel a large emission of anxiety or depression from this image, however I'm sure it could be read into to uncover these feelings. For example, she said as quoted above that the beauty within her images represent creating something beautiful out of something so painful.
In this image she is absolutely soaked with water on the edge of a sea, with a ship in the background, and so we assume she's washed up. The strange part, however, is that she seems full conscious yet she doesn't attempt to get up. She looks as if she's just contemplating everything rather than being in a state of shock or fear, which would be the normal human reaction. This again suggests the comfort of mental illness being the norm, that this isn't the first time she's experienced a feeling like this and so she just accepts it.
The constant blue tones offer a cold feeling to the image as well as making everything flow well on the eye. The cool tones mixed with the water give an even colder feeling as you can imagine the temperature she is experiencing.
She has again places herself in an undesirable place yet shows comfort or indifferent to being in that position.
While this photography interests me both visually and conceptually, it's very different to what I have been creating. However, the similarities are the underlying force and motivation behind the images are the same. I think this could be said for a lot of imagery, however because these are also self-portraits from a women I feel more connected to them.
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