I decided to look more into the ways that awareness is conducted and found some posters that I believe visually strong and emotive. I feel like I would like to respond (not in a poster style) but these images have  given me a few ideas of how to incorporate certain elements within my own body of work.

I like how the subject in the middle image has tape over her mouth, I feel like I can incorporate the context of the image on the right alongside this. The fact that a hand is over her mouth, not letting her speak standing as representation of the truth and reality behind this and even if there isn’t physically a hand over their moth, it can be just as hard to communicate and talk about negative encounters. Therefore, I plan on using the tape to represent the fact that they can’t speak out, along side the words on the tape which represent what some victims did say when they did have the chance to speak out.

SPECIFICATION 

I plan on responding to this idea of not being able to voice certain things. I had an idea to combine things that a previous photographer Valerie had stated throughout her work (that women had stated to her) and I think it will be quite interesting to perhaps create portraits of various women and write in a sharpie over that tape with some of these statements:

It’s ok. It was my fault.

I have nowhere else to go.

I’ve waited for him to change. It’s been eleven years now.

It started when I first got pregnant.

My mother asked me what I had done to cause this.

I haven’t told anyone.

I’m afraid to go out.

I still love him.

I plan on conducting this shoot in the studio with studio lighting because I want the focus to be on the statements written over their mouths and not on anything in the background. I definitely think that using a variety of people will look better than just one person with all the different statements and as far as rule of third, I plan on placing everyone in the center of the frame because I think it would be odd to have them off centered.