Carlotta Magaigo - Experimentation

Carlotta Manaigo 

I recently came across the work of Carlotta Manaigo. What I can gather from her work is that she photographs mainly fashion models however sometimes links them to landscape or object photographs that reflect a similar feeling. The way Carlotta has set her work out on Tumblr shows this idea seamlessly, as you scroll through her work, fashion or model images are reflected by a photograph with a similar tone, pattern, shape or colour making the photographs link perfectly. 

Here are some of my favourite examples - 

This image was actually put together with an editing process as it is one file and doesn't have a gap in the middle. Despite the patterns of the images being slightly different the contrast between the beige tones and the blues stays the same. This gives both images a neutral effect, tiring them in nicely. 

I feel that the tone and temperature of these to images are very similar. The grey, muted building contrasts with the boys pale skin, both very cold and faded colours. I believe the image of the boy injects some life into the comparison due to the slight colour coming from his ginger hair and freckles. 

Lastly, there is these two images placed next to each other with an obvious link. I think what ties the images together is the firstly the pattern of the windows and the purse. Both repeating triangle shapes over and over again to get the repetitive effect. What also links the photo's together is the urban feel to both, the building we can tell is urban and it appears to be high-rise and very modern, something you would find in a city. The female seems to be wearing quite fashionable clothing, perhaps something a business women would wear within the city. 

My Interpretation 

The images below are my interpretation of Carlotta Manaigo's work whereby she makes diptych images by combining two images of similar colour or pattern. I tried to recreate this with the images that I have taken throughout my project that I believe link.

This photograph I put together as I think the colour of the lipstick and top of the first image and the colour of the flower match. When I put these together in Photoshop, although there was a pink theme running through them I still felt that the temperature of the photographs was quite different. Therefore I used a pink hue to change the tones of them, making them tie together much better. 

This image I put together because of the predominant green tones in both. As you can see there is a green bush behind my model and the tree and grass stands out the most in the other image. When editing these photographs together I noticed that the first image was much brighter than the other, therefore I decided to bring the brightness of the photo down giving a much paler and duller look, making it link to the second image.



This last diptych has two images from the same shoot, both from shoot 8 (the snow day). I decided to link these two together on this fact alone, they both portrayed the same weather, in the same location with a similar tone. I made the decision to convert this edit to black and white to make the temperature of both photographs the same. I found that this made the whole image more in unison.