Noma Bar

My project is partly about the transparency of older women and I am always on the lookout for images which portray transparency.

Now Noma Bar's images are not about transparency - they are extremely dramatic.  

Nonetheless he does use transparency as a technique to increase the graphic qualities of the image.

I think his images are extremely clever and effective.  His powerful portrait of Saddam Hussein (above) uses a radiation symbol for Sadam's eyes/eyebrows and moustache, simply adding a military beret and jacket.  The face is transparent.  Similarly, the image of Charlie Chaplain (right) is pared back to black on a white background, the face is transparent, with black continuous line features which results in an evocative, rather sad portrait. 

I am reverting back to collage techniques for my project.  I am behind with the work, but rather than angsting on what I should or should not be doing, I am simply doing what I feel is most creative.  Whatever the result it is better than non-productive panic.  I'm pleased with the results.