I wanted to attempt to showcase one of my current personal struggles involving my health in this shoot and contrast it with how I was beforehand. To achieve this, I’d bought a costume from a party shop that looked similar to a hospital gown and borrowed a friend’s helmet.

I took these images of myself in the studio, using different camera settings to achieve different effects, such as the long exposures that I shot. The lighting was set up so that it would create harsher shadows on the left-hand side of the image, and I think it ended up looking better in the photographs where I was wearing the jacket and helmet, which was a shame as I was trying to recreate the harsh lighting that hospitals often have.

These are my final shots for this shoot. I plan to use maybe two or three for the mock exam, the images of me in the hospital gown in particular – as that was the purpose of this shoot. I might do a smaller reshoot in my own time to create a matching photograph when it comes to the angle and pose I’m stood in, so I can combine the two images either digitally or after printing to emphasise the effect that I want from this.