http://www.emptykingdom.com/featured/jen-manns-return/
I found Jen Mann while browsing through tumblr and just loved her work, the colours in her portraits and especially the series that the last 2 were taken from, down to the colours and the strange expressions on there faces. They are from the exhibition 'strange beauties'.
I then went on to find an interview with her where she went on to explain why she had painted them like this. Jen Mann is also a photographer, and was interested in the unfiltered idea of beauty. She was interested in something being wrong, bad or more so something we see as bad and find the beauty within it. Like in this case those bad photos we delete off our cameras because someone blinked or was mid way changing expression and finding the beauty within that. I like the idea behind that as thats something i love to keep as i feel there is more truth and beauty often in those photographs, those unposed moments i feel more is captured.
She looked for off shots from photo shoots she had taken and tried to find the beauty within them, by messing with colours and exposure to make people look at them in a different light, and painted them. In the interview she spoke about how those 'off shots' that we often take and delete and are taught to see as ugly are often those defining moments and there not exactly ugly just strange, awkward and looking at it as if your a child and find how amazing they could be and the beauty within them making them more playful.
Interview- https://vimeo.com/62258938
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