For this photo shoot, I am going to take photos of people who are close to me (friends and family), and have them do specific things in which I can alter them to show how I represent mental health.

An original idea I had was to write words which are a typical response when people are asked ‘how are you?’ or ‘how are you feeling?’. So on their hands I wrote ‘I’m OK’. I feel like this is powerful as it has a connection to mental health, due to being used so much when talking about opening up.

The reason I used their hands as a canvas for my writing as they are easy to maneuver to create more emotive movements and expressions. I have ideas to write them on the fingers and have my model make fists and point them towards the camera in front of him. The other idea I had was to write again on the fingers but this time in a way so that they could be seen when he has his head resting in his hands, or his hands covering his face.

I decided that this photo shoot would be best in a studio as I could adjust the lighting and set up the camera stationary to get the best possible shots of the models.