Laura Hospes
Laura Hospes has been photographing herself since she was 16 because she felt as though she needed to connect with other people and has become necessary over the years. Her work focuses on the struggles that she has experienced in life. Her experiences of depression and anxiety and mirrors well-being, she is currently working on a project about caring and healing.
As closure of a difficult period of time, Hospes created a book called UCP (named after the psychiatric ward where she had to stay in. UCP was chosen as one of the best photo books of 2016 by De Volkskrant, is shortlisted as one of the best Dutch Book Designs 2016 and shown on many book fairs and exhibitions.
Katie Joy Crawford
Katie Joy Crawford focuses on her own experiences with anxiety, battling it for a decade she felt as though she was finally able to express her inner emotions. Her work consists of self-portraiture and she visually interoperates her own emotional and physical journey as a way of projecting the weight that so may people bare in society. She wants her work to be used as a source of healing for other people as it was for her.
Photoshoot Plans
Photoshoot 1– Inspired by Laura Hospes
For my first shoot I’m going into the studio with two of my friends
Photoshoot 2– Inspired by Katie Joy Crawford
For my second photoshoot I am planning to make a milk bath that I am going to dye black with flowers.
Photoshoot 3– Wild goose chase of a photoshoot
For my final photoshoot I have decided to take images of a Forrest as I think that it will tie the idea of loneliness no matter how surrounded you are when it comes to mental health.
With two of my friends will go into St Saviours Forest
