Creative Photography - Money, why?

Money, why?

MONEY

All About Money

Money, wanted!

Money Makes You Crazy!

Money, just paper.

Creative Photography is one of the assignments in this semester, I chose a theme about money reality nowadays, to make people open their eyes and see money's real side, and how money destroys people and makes them crazy, and to make people realize that money is important in this world but money is a demon on the other hand, and stop wanting too much money, and stop being crazy for the money in this world.

I got the inspiration in some of  my living and traveling experiences and some crazy and messed up stories that caused by the desire of money I've heard about.

Such as nowadays, education is business that most of the people would agree with me, some people need to work for 5 years to earn the money for 3 years university education fee; and I've heard about a lot of complains about living on campus in the college hostel from some Chinese students, that the college desires to get more extra money from the students for no reason or they'd create some ridiculous and non-existed dramas then ask the students for some more extra money; or as some of my European looking friends told me that Asia is racist, when they travel in Asia, some shops, restaurants and taxi ask them for twice more price, which is NOT fair! And as my own experience to Thailand, for a person from China has a Chinese passport could get an Arrival Visa at the boarder, but instead I got hustled by a random Thai guy who told me that he could get me arrival visa and I had to pay him money, as soon as he gets the money, he's gone. 

Well, there are lots of more examples to show how world goes crazy around money; it's true that everyone needs money to live and not to be hungry, but it has to be a limit, when you are off the limit, I believe everything will be out of control; as long as we control ourselves, everything will be all right.

There are 10 photographs in this album, the 1st image: Money, why? was captured with slow shutter speed and tripod to give this effect, the model wrote on the floor with light, and the photograph was taken at night.

The 2nd photograph: MONEY, was captured with slow shutter speed and tripod as well, and with a green laser light written on the wall.

The 3rd photograph was a lot of process, I got inspirations on the clay that I have at home, I made some little people without heads, and stuck the printed fake dollar into the bodies as their head to show that most people now is money headed, that think about money all the time; and a television in the middle with money coming out of it to represent that most of the media nowadays is for loads marketing and all about money; the "shit" next to it to show that money minded people who only think about money live in a "shit" world.

Getting inspirations on the clay

Got some inspirations from the mirror reflection

Money, wanted! I played with slow shutter speed with the camera and by zooming in and out during the slow shutter speed processing moment; I stuck the printed fake dollars on the wall, and desiring hands position to show that everyone wants to take the money if there is money.

Money Makes You Crazy! The same process as Money, wanted! I stuck the fake dollars above the model's eyes to show that most people only see the "beauty" of money in their life without knowing that money makes them crazy!

Money, just paper. I managed this photograph in the end, because I wanna give a conclusion of the whole album, to tell people:" Think about it, cash is actually just a piece of paper, it's flammable, there's lots of more beauty in this world, money isn't everything to us, look at the passion of the fire! it's another beauty of the world that exists." 

Behind the scene

The money in the photo shoot isn't real money, it's printed fake money and paper.

Model: Egor Fedotov

Money can help you get most of the things in the world, but it can not help you get everything in this world.