I decided to created these images, purely from an idea that I had, however I wanted to connect it somehow to an artists that I have previously looked at and decided to connect this idea with Valerie. The images that she creates are quite perfect in the sense that everything is set up, it looks like she uses some sort of professional lighting and that is something I wanted to incorporate throughout this shoot. The staged and adjusted lights setting about the whole thing definitely connects with the work that she produced. Alongside the written statement I found from her website that I used to represent those (victims) who spoke out. My main reasons for conducting this photo shoot was because I was so shocked at her research including things that women have said to her and I found that just unbelievable, and it really horrified me at the fact that women felt like this/what people had said to them (e.g. ‘my mother asked me what I had done to cause this’).

I already adjusted these images into black and white and did this because that is how I want my final outcomes to be look like. An interesting idea that I could experiment with when considering final outcomes could be to mount them up a foam board, with the written statements underneath each image. One reason for this could be because when printed out, they might come out small and thus the writing may be difficult to read. Another reason to conduct this would be for a powerful and emotive effect, I also think that presentation wise, it would look quite interesting to have that standing out (as I want that to be the primary focus).