Mihaela ivanova photographer biography samples

The last photographer I will be looking at is Mahaela Ivanova.

Mihaela Ivanova is a Bulgarian photographer who experiments with simple conceptual shots and black and white series.

The works below focus on the concept of identity, with the subject holding a part of a portrait of a different person, whether it be the eyes or the mouth, in front of their own face, hiding their identity.

Contact sheet:

In the pictures I took, since I wasn’t able to get a picture of another person’s face in time for the photo shoot, I instead used a blank piece of paper for the subject to hold over her eyes, and will be photo shopping another person’s face into that piece of paper to create the look of Mihaela Ivanova’s work.

I told the subject to look directly into the camera with the ripped piece of paper over her eyes to get the right pose, which resulted in these photos.

Chosen edited picture:

How I did it:

I started off by choosing an image which I could use,