After making my statement of intent, I went on to further develop the plan for my personal study, forming ideas and taking inspiration from other works that I will likely take inspiration from:
I created a mind map in order to arrange my ideas, and in doing so developed some ideas for a photo-shoot that I could use to begin the process of creating images around the concept of the historical context of gender roles, and the way they have changed and developed over time. I want to be able to show a contrast between “now” and “then”, incorporating aspects of different periods in time such as clothing styles and typical gendered-jobs into each image.
I then created a mood board, incorporating inspiration from different images and concepts to do with identifying and breaking gender stereotypes, with some of the images showing the vulnerability of men, and others showing stereotypes being both broken and adhered to.