for this photoshoot me and my friends went to the old waters edge hotel at bouley bay i mainly used natural lighting for this shoot to try show the real damage and story of a place like this

Identity is how you are perceived and what makes you who you are. A certain place you visit frequently can become a huge part of your identity, how you have grown up can play a big part on mental health which also creates your identity, sad looking/happy looking.

mood board

I focused my project on my grandads belongings. He died before I was born but he had an interesting life. I focused a lot one of his passports.

I chose one which was valid during a time he was working. I did this because he had a job on a boat, so the passport had many stamps from different locations across the world.

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Part of the reason I chose to do my project on him is because I was named after him.

I also chose to base my project on this because he was captured in the war. While he was living in Manila, he was captured by the Japanese when they invaded. They put him in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, the biggest Japanese camp in the Philippines at the time.

It was not a concentration camp, but the conditions were very poor and prisoners barely got any food. This resulted in many dying from starvation. After the liberation by the Americans, they photographed the ones who survived.

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My grandad kept a declaration of wheat given by the Americans after they liberated Santo Tomas.

I used this as a backdrop to take some of my photos:

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I also used this to edit other photos on to

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I have decided to compare Claude Cahun and Francesca Woodman’s work because both artists usually shoot in black & white, always have a hidden message in their pictures and they both struggle with their own identity.

An obvious similarity between these images is that they are both in black and white however, Cahun’s image looks softer and has yellower tones (probably because of the cameras available during the 30s) compared to Woodman’s which has a high contrast between her white clothes and the dark background.

Claude Cahun Differences	Both Similarities	Francesca Woodman Differences
no face	black and white	side profile
extended arms and fingers	hands	abandoned building?
artist on the right	outside?	artist on the left
2 arms	rocks	3 arms – 2 holding 1
bracelets	shadows	white sleeves
1931/1932 – France?	confusing – what is going on? why?	1977-78 – Italy
“I Extend My Arms”		untitled
1 person		2 people – 1 not visible
naked?		high contrast