This project explores intimacy, sadness, awkwardness, and most importantly, love in distress. Using the studio and a variety of hot lights, I articulated these emotions through the images. Not only this, but inspiration from both talented photographers Carrie Mae Weems and Pixy Liao, I utilized some techniques from their photographs to replicate into my own project, giving more inspiration to my own ideas and my own posing throughout the shoot. A heavy usage of photoshop provided the opportunity to present seamless clones in the images, giving a deeper meaning to every photo.