Over the Easter holidays, I plan on responding in depth about domestic violence. I feel that it is such a big issue and It’s quite  a personal matter as i know many people (friends and family) how have unfortunately been involved in a domestic situation, whether it be physical or mentally: each issue is just as bad as the other.

Research starting points:

• http://www.donnaferrato.com/work …  http://www.iamunbeatable.com/the-archive/
• lee friedlander reflection!!!!!!!!!- 1960’s self portrait – the museum of modern art – Friedlander
• jh engström härbärge

Photo shoot Idea:

Shoot No.1 – Domestic abuse is an issue all over the world, and  is definitely an issue that most people don’t realise happens even in the smallest of places .  I think it would be interesting to contact the Jersey refuge for women to see if it would be possible to talk to and maybe photography some of the women organisation their and learn more about their stories (and then represent their stories within a series of staged images). I’m very aware that these are tough situations and some women may not want to talk about it or be photographed, and that’s ok. I just plan on getting stories of a few women and hopefully portray their situations. I would love for them to be included photographically (by taking portraits of them) and I will contact them on Friday to ask permission to go and talk to these women. If I am able to access the organisation and are welcome to go and talk to some of the women, I will prepare questions to ask them and I will record everything (if that’s okay with them).

Shoot No.2: This shoot will consist of me staging images that represent the stories that some of the women have been through. I think that the combination of their quotes alongside the fact that these situations i’m photographing actually happened, give this authentic feel and will hopefully be emotive and powerful. For now, I plan on using someone as a subject to represent the role of the victim, however I feel as if representing the role of the perpetrator could be just as powerful in representing this evil and hunting nature.

Shoot No.3 : This shoot is sort of a back up plan, and is an experimentation in which I plan on looking into the idea of reflections through self-portraiture. I was highly inspired when looking at the work of Lee Friedlander and plan on creating images of my own that look visually similar to his own body of work. I find it particularly interesting when he incorporated elements of himself within his images, whether it be just a shadow or half of his face and so on. This shoot will be conducted by taking just a few images at first, to see if they look good visually, and to see if it is something i would want to base a whole project around.