This photograph is by Danger Ninja Production. It is a simple photo essay of a girl who's been injured and is wrapped in gauze, standing with a pole that has a bag of blood on it. In the first photo, you can see all of the pole and the girl, so you can get a sense of her injuries and what she looks likes all together. In the second photo, it's a profile of the girl. Even though she's injured, she doesn't seem very upset or in much pain. More naive or innocent looking.
This photo can relate to society because of its obsession with blood, gore and women. In most action and horror movies, there's always a beautiful girl who's, at some point or another, naked/semi-naked/implied to be naked. There's also a gruesome death... or twenty. It also relates with its Anime feel and is actually a homage to the Japanese street style known as Kegadoru. Kegadoru is the 'injured idol fetish,' were girls will walk around wearing bandages to get attention from guys who prefer this specific style. Which shows, yet again, societies obsession with all things violent and sexual.
The reason I find this photo inspiring is because of how different it is. When I was looking through Danger Ninja Production's portfolio, this immediately caught my eye. If it was a still from a video, I'd want to know how she got like that. Why would she be wandering around, bloody and covered in bandages while holding an IV pole? Why doesn't she care? Is it from drugs? Or maybe it's just a Halloween costume? Plus many other questions popped into my head. That's why it's inspiring to me. I have so many questions and scenarios running through my head, which gives me so many ideas.
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