This image is really intriguing because you can see the technique of blur giving it an amateur effect to this photo yet at the same time you are still able to get a feel for the youth culture of being rebellious and thinking it is "cool"- this is because they are willing to pose for a photo whilst smoking. At the same time, you can't exactly see the smoke, there is a mist effect on the top of the screen which is implied to be the smoke due to the light at the end of the cigarette. Furthermore, this image is intriguing because the majority of the time, using artificial light- like the camera flash, can be seen are "ruining" an image, yet, I believe the use of the artificial lighting within this image gives the helps convey a stereotype of the youth culture- there appears to be little thought go into this image- there isn't camera settings set to make a flash not necessary, symbolising how the youth culture is uncaring and always in a rush- they aren't bothered whether there is a flash- which as the viewer of this image, I think works really well.
This image is really intriguing because the whole of the frame is focused on the cigarette- the aim for this shoot. This image has a punctum of the painted red nails. This is interesting into looking at this image because it's as if the photographer has used the feminine and beauty product of nail varnish to give smoking a glamorous appeal to it- suggesting that setereotypically, all teenagers are pulled in by- thus making them smoke. Another factor of this image which is interesting is the film effect. As this image is suggested to of been taken using a film camera, there isn't any clear smoke (much like the image above), this is symbolic because we can't see the smoke yet we know this subject is smoking due to the cigarette being lit. The reason not being able to see the smoke can be argued to be symbolic is that we can say the same for the youth culture, they are all happy smoking thinking it is glamorous and on the outside they look "cool" yet youth cannot see the damage it is really doing- much like we cannot see the smoke.
Unlike the first two image in this blog post, you can actually see the smoke which is really interesting because it covers her face. This can be seen as symbolic because this teenager is able to cover her identity from the smoke hiding her. Additionally, this image is based on the cigarette it's based on the slum like activity of youths smoking in the first place. This is because of the location this image is taken in along with the clothes she is wearing. The surroundings of this image appear to be an abandoned building- perhaps a carpark, which has been vandalised through graffiti, thus suggesting this isn't a very nice place to be. With the location combined with the youth smoking, gives it a negative stereotyped view that they are smoking just for the likes of a "cool" photo and not caring what it is really doing to them- this is purely the stereotyped view as we are unaware on who this subject really is.
This image differs from the other images because all we can see if the hand of a subject, nothing else. Much like the second image, the photographer has used nail vanish as a form of glamorising smoking. But at the same time this image holds a rebellious aspect to it. The subject could have held the cigarette with their thumb and index finger, instead they have chosen to use the middle finger, the finger which is used in order to give a rude gesture. This body language is very symbolic into creating the youth stereotype through smoking because it implies they are swearing at anyone who is looking at this image, a way of showing people that they do not care what they are doing, they want to carry on.
This simplicity of this image is really intriguing because we have here a portrait of a female subject, with dark sun glasses on and smoke coming out of her mouth. The dark sun glasses can be suggested to be a form of hiding who she is. This is symbolic because many stereotypes involving smoking and the youth culture imply that they do not care what they are doing. Yet this photographers use of props (sunglasses) suggest are form of hiding because they know full well that they shouldn't be doing this. Furthermore, the editing of having it in black and white makes this image even more intriguing because it highlights the smoke- it has become the most dominant and focus pull of the frame.
This image is very similar to one of the other images in this blog post as the photographer hasn't included the full subject , just their hand and a lighter. This can be argued as symbolic into showing the stereotypes of youth culture because is doesn't give this subject an identity, suggesting that all teenagers smoke and do it as a way of rebelling and looking "good/cool". Furthermore much like a different image in this blog post, the photographer has use the effect of artificial lighting in order to give it an amateur effect- not caring and just quickly taking the image so they have it.
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