Katherine Ramirez Photography

            Word of the week is an ongoing assignment throughout the course of Photography II, in which students are given a word or phrase that they must interpret in a photograph. The goal of the image is to stand out from others, since there are almost one hundred other students who will also be turning in an image for the same prompt. For this assignment, the chosen word of the week was cliché. A cliché, by definition, is a sentence or phrase that expresses a common thought or idea. 

            In my picture, I chose to represent the cliché, “love is blind.” This cliché, although very simply, can have many different meanings. A person could be so blinded by love that they do not realize that their partner is cheating, or that their friends and family need their guidance. But, for my approach, I chose to create a scenario in which a person may be so blinded that they do not realize who they are truly dating. I incorporated a knife behind the back of the guy to demonstrate who he truly is. Not only does it exaggerate the idea of love being blind, but it also adds instability to his character. On the other hand the girl, stuck on the idea of his perfection and kindness towards her, lacks the ability to see who he truly is.

           After researching many cliches, I came across “love is blind”. This is the one that most appealed to me because, other than its popularity, it could be taken in many different perspectives. As stated before, love can blind someone in many different ways. It can get someone so lost in lust, that they begin to forget that more serious events are occurring around them. This idea really caught my eye because it enables me, as the photographer, to really exaggerate how blind love can make someone; hence why I took the “murderer”approach in my photograph.