For my personal investigation based around the ideas of Occupation and Liberation, I will be exploring the concept of mental health and mental illness using some ideas of abstraction and modernism as well as elements of street photography/social reform photography.

For my own personal investigation project I wanted to focus on a subject very close to me personally which is mental illness, and more specifically, depression. I find that this fits really well into the idea of occupation/liberation, as it is something that takes a hold of someone, controlling them and cutting them off from the outside, similarly to that of the island during the occupation in WWII. As the idea of mental illness is something that is difficult to see physically, which means that it is much harder to show images which will represent it in the way that I want, as unlike the occupation of jersey which left remnants of bunkers on the island, there are very few ways to tell that anything has happened/is happening inside the head of a person.

However I not only want to create a made up story, but something more personal to me, which is about my own experience, and try to show almost autobiographical elements in a slightly abstract way. The first ideas that come to mind when showing this subject would be something to do with emptiness and Isolation. For instance, I was thinking of using nature to show many of my key points I want to come across for my personal investigation, using lone trees or out of place flowers to show isolation or abandoned buildings to show the concept of being empty.