Working with photographer, Kate Bosworth.

I was approached by Kate, who is a second year fine art photographer at the AUB to do the make-up for a shoot she was planning. Kate had been involved in a car accident a short while before the shoot and her photography tutor had thought that it might create some very hard hitting art if she was to attempt to recreate elements of the crash through photographs. Although Kate had some images of her car after the crash she had not taken any photos of her injuries as, although painful, they did not look particularly bad. She wanted to remain true to what had actually happened and not go too over dramatic with the make-up.



The most noticeable area of injury after the crash was along the neck, onto the collar bone, as this is where the seatbelt had cut into her at the moment of impact. This created some bruising in a distinctive straight line shape. Besides this the only areas that she felt might require a little make-up were around the eyes as she appeared very drawn and over-tired from the late night spent in the hospital after the crash.

I built up the bruising very gradually using a variety of different grease paint colours and got Kate to check in the mirror frequently to tell me when to stop when she felt that the bruising looked accurate to what she had had previously. Overall I think that we were both very pleased with how the photos came out.