Looking through articles and asking a couple of people about their experiences dealing with the Stereotypes around Mental illness and disorders. The main theme of isolation fear, abandonment was brought up. The areas around where I live are perfect for taking the images that I want to take. Scratched and scraped, run down and left to their own destruction. The first images I experimented with Studio work.
I had a song in my head called 'There's Hope' by India Arie. there's a part in the song that goes, "It's all about your perception" and that lead me on to a conversation with myself about the way you perceive photography. With my pathway project I obviously have my own views on the pictures I take and the meanings behind them, and then people will also have their own interpretations as well.
To self: Always take into consideration how others will interpret your work.
Another note to self: listen to more of India's songs. They carry a good message.
Also, before I forget:
You wanted to look into film. Way to connect your images (through metaphors? things with a double meaning?). Make them flow. And to tell a story.
Ooh, I just thought of contact sheets! You could do contact sheets. Who was that photographer who discovered moving images?
In an article taken from the eight magazine, there was a photographer called Kousuke Okahara- images of his work- who seemed to use this 'vignette' technique (or that is what it looks like to me) to draw attention to these girls and the issues they face. These images were more about the fact that we are looking through a type of view finder. The images
Yesterday I took some images in the studio and altered them using faded black edges, burring techniques and I also altered the saturation using GIMP (I really have alot of trouble with photoshop):
I wish I tried wrapping the rope around this image. I'm unsure as to whether I should have blurred this image or not. I wanted to be softer, but I probably should have left it the way it was.
By the way, i'm starting to like colour, but I still love B&W.
