“No Diving”

This series of images is carefully curated by fabrics and poster boards, pool floatys, PVC pipe, and a ton of tape creating a scene of a small pool with people floating and enjoying their time in it. My inspiration for this scene was the vintage Barbie doll advertisements, the way the dolls are photographed against a solid color background near a body of water, and have bright colored swimsuits that make the advertisement pop. I wanted my models to look as if they were smaller in scale, like a doll, to create this illusion with a limited amount of studio space, I attached a PVC pipe to poster boards, then cheated my models closer to the camera. By using the PVC pipe, I have created a large Fossett, with bright blue fabric flowing out of it, imitating when little girls would play with dolls in the bathtub. I have taken the barbies background of a bathtub and put them into a different space, this is through the perspective of a girl playing with her dolls.