YUKI DOLL Photography

Friday, 14 May 2010

Final Images

Here are the final edited (textured) images all sized and ready for printing for the book:

The Human Condition - Fine Art, Eating Disorder.

"People with bulimia nervosa have episodes of binge eating. This is followed by self-induced vomiting or other measures to counteract the excessive food intake. Treatments include cognitive-behavioural therapy, and sometimes medicines and self-help measures. Many people with bulimia get better with treatment.
Bulimia nervosa (often just called bulimia) is a condition where you think a lot about your body weight and shape. It affects your ability to have a 'normal' eating pattern. Bulimia is one of the conditions that form the group of eating disorders that includes anorexia nervosa. There are important differences between these two conditions. For example, in anorexia nervosa you are very underweight, whereas in bulimia nervosa, you are most likely to be normal weight or even overweight.
Bulimia mainly affects women aged 16-40. It most commonly starts around the age of 19 years. It affects around 8 in 100 women in the UK. Bulimia sometimes develops in men and children. Women are 10 times more likely to develop bulimia than men. However, bulimia is becoming more common in boys and men. Bulimia is more common than anorexia nervosa.

There may be some genetic factor, as the risk of developing bulimia in close relatives of people with bulimia is four times greater than in the general population.
Bingeing and purging are the main symptoms and are usually done in secret.

Bingeing means that you have repeated episodes of eating large amounts of foods and/or drinks. For example, you may eat a whole large tub of ice cream or two packets of biscuits even if you are not hungry. You feel out of control and unable to stop eating. Binge eating is often done very quickly until you feel physically uncomfortable. This happens not just on one occasion, but regularly. Eating patterns typically become chaotic.
Purging means that you try and counteract the 'fattening' effects of the food from the bingeing. Self-induced vomiting (making yourself sick) after a bout of bingeing is the most well-known, but not all people with bulimia do this. Other purging methods include taking lots of laxatives, extreme exercise, extreme dieting or even periods of complete starvation, taking diuretics (water tablets) or taking other medicines such as amfetamines.

The reasons why you binge eat and then purge may not be easy to explain. Part of the problem may be due to a fear of getting fat, although it is often not just as simple as that. All sorts of emotions, feelings and attitudes may contribute. The physical act of bingeing and purging may be a way of dealing with your emotions in some way." - Source

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Thursday, 13 May 2010

The Human Condition - Fine Art, Seductress

"Nymphomania: Excessive sexual desire in women which can lead to promiscuity. The problem usually has an emotional origin which means that the underlying emotional problem often needs to be treated in order to treat the condition. The emotional problem may stem from and unconscious conflict about their own adequacy.
The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Nymphomania includes the 12 symptoms listed below:

Persistent thoughts about coitus or sexual images
Compulsive masturbation
Promiscuous sexual activity
Out of control behaviour
Personality change
Anxiety
Depression
Low self esteem
Substance abuse
Alcoholism
Repeated unsuccessful relationships
Person becomes obsessed with obtaining sexual gratification, to the detriment of their normal (social, occupational, recreational activities); often repeated attempts to cease behaviour are unsuccessful."

Rather than going down the obvious, not very tasteful route for this photoshoot, i decided to get a buresque/pin up model. Since it's suppost to be a victorian insane asylum - her condition wouldn't be exactly nymphomania but she would be seen as a seductress and tease, and in such a man dominated society she would be seen as a menace to society and so would be sent to an asylum. (and inside she will attempt to seduce the asylum guards, walking around in barely any clothes and not being very proper and lady-like)