Seven Deadly Sins

I used the theme "Seven Deadly Sins" as the concept for my photoshoot for college, I personal think this worked very well because the theme was not used in the littoral way, that you would associate it with. Instead I chose to strip it right back to the dark reality of the meaning of "Dante's Inferno"this theme work beautiful and through research, design and styling (clothes, hair and makeup) it all came together and create the seriously twisted concept I had in mind. But what I feel help bring that dark cloud and air to the shoot, was the strong presence of the location of the "Liverpool Anglican Cathedral" with its Gothic Revival architecture. 

The first deadly sin is of "Lust". Lust is usually thought of as involving obsessive or excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. In Dante's view lust led to "Excessive love of others," which therefore devotion to God secondary.. 

The second deadly sin is the sin of "Gluttony". Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. It can refer to over-eating, which is a sin because it withholds food from the needy and also debases the glutton by making him a slave to base, animal desires, such as his distracts the sinner from the spiritual life.

The third deadly sin is the sin of "Greed" or avarice. Like gluttony, this sin is a sin of excess. Its most common from is the excessive love of money, manifested in various forms such as miserliness and unethical business practices. This sin turns the sinner away from god by promoting selfishness, destroying charity, and creating a preoccupation with the acquisition and preservation of material things and possessions. As such this sin blinds the sinner to the fact that material possessions such as gold are worthless compared to the everlasting rewards of heaven. But because the sinner guilty of greed does not see that what he covets the most is worthless, he ignores the treasure and rewards of heaven and therefore does not follow the right path.

The fourth deadly sin is the sin of "Sloth". This sin has a somewhat ambiguous definition and has gone through some changes over the centuries. originally, sloth referred to sadness, apathy and joylessness, which reflected the sinners failure to see god's gifts and his goodness. Dante defined sloth as the "failure to love god with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul." Dante felt that this was the "middle sin" in that it was the only sin characterised by an absence or inadequacy of love. In modern times sloth is interpreted as the sin of laziness, of an unwillingness to act, an unwillingness to care (rather than a failure to love god and his works).

The fifth deadly sin is the sin of "Wrath" (anger or hatred) This sin leads to other serious sins and transgressions including violence, a desire to seek revenge, and a failure to forgive. Dante described vengeance as "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite".

The sixth deadly sin is the sin of "Envy" or jealousy. Thomas Aquinas described Envy as "sorrow for another's good". People who commit this sin desire the qualities or possessions or situation of another person which they perceive as lacking in themselves. Dante defines this sin as "love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs."

The seventh deadly sin is the sin of "Pride". Despite being listed as the seventh deadly sin, the sin of pride is considered the first and foremost sin. It is the which led to Lucifer's downfall and which plagues mankind in various forms. Indeed pride is the ultimate sin from which all the others arise. Dante's definition was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbour."