The following images were taken over the summer of 2014 for a personal project where I had friends model as the major arcana cards in a tarot deck.
A tarot deck is an ancient tool used by pagans for both meditation and decision making. Each deck consists of 78 cards- 56 minor arcana cards (which resemble a deck of playing cards with four suites and four face cards per suit instead of 3), and 22 major arcana cards.
This project focuses on the major arcana- 22 cards depicting common archetypes:
0- The fool
1- The magician
2- The high priestess
3- The empress
4- The emperor
5- The heirophant
6- The lovers
7- The chariot
8- Strength
9- The hermit
10- The wheel of fortune
11- Justice
12- The hanged man
13- Death
14- Temperence
15- The devil
16- The tower
17- The star
18- The moon
19- The sun
20- Judgement
21- The world
Two cards are missing from my photo deck (11- justice, and 17- the star) because my models for these two cards didn't follow through and I couldn't replace them last second. Hopefully next summer I can replace these two, or I've thought about redoing all the cards in another style since my photo skills have improved so much since these were taken.