Throughout my gallery I presented it with similarties to my final photobook but also a little different I added all similar images together and not my images just what I would say our my best. This is the first part of my virtual gallery, I really liked these photos but the two of the people in the car without the writing werent my favourite, i liked that they showed inside of teenage life and laughing a different side of what some people might see the fun with being a teenager and with your friends. the distraction from other things. The over photos are just of the weather to even give a juxstaposing affect and Pathetic fallacy, even though the images seem to be happy and rain reflect sadness its because even though they are happy there is the dark truth inside of how they really feel and you cant always get away from it.
Again all these images have a similar relavance to eachother, as rhey are all the same guy, it goes well together even though i did not present it like this in the book, because as you can see its mainly his back turned or hiding his face in usally dark or sad places, only really one not is the skating photo this demonstrates more of the depressed and sad side of being a teenager, and shows teir escape, with doig certain activites even if that incudes walking alone at night, just to get air and escape. The arge photo next to all the images,of his face is a symbolic resembolince that life is tiring and drags on sometimes, yes life is actually eautful but just bein a teenager isnot an easy aspect but fight through it. I like these imaes because i think they show skills ofphotography especially the one of his face with the lighting, i also think the affect fromall of them is powerful and somehow says a lot even in a silent photograph.
This was more of my romantic side, another side of teeage life i think is overlooked, how watching the love in our lives be twisted by who we see like our parents or social media, but a usual quote iven to teenager is that ‘you dont know what love is your too young’ or ‘its never going to last’ and i think thats not true and there is another side to it sometmes you can find love and jst beause we are young doesnt mean that we dont know what ove is or that it doesnt exist, of course there are twisted and cmplicated sides to it but it still exisits in our lives. i like how these images correspond and contradict with eachogher, showing the loving side and the complicated sides, things even we worry about at our age even though we shouldnt have to.
This area of my gallery is of school, the rough effort side of school and what actually goes on. I especially like the two photosof the messy desk, i like the ffect of a spotlight on the photos almost like its a crime scene or a scary movie, which demonstates what it is, its a crime scene of the mess school makes all the work andeffort teenagers and students put into school.
This was the last few photos which I also really liked as they show a darker side to teenage life and also the fact that not all teenager have the easy life of school until their 18 and some have to cut it short and head straight into work to support their families lives and grow up a little too quickly, mainly i wanted to demonstarte all sorts of sides from what teenage life is like for everyone best i can. I also just genuinly really liked these photos as i think they give apowerful affect, i think the lighting on his face isnt the absoloute best but i like how they all link together.
This is my full complete photobook, I kept the layout throughout it similar as it gives a symmetry and sequence throughout the whole book having everything relate. I kept all the pages background black as it went well with the theme giving a dark depressing affect as well as contrasting well with the majority black and white images.
This will be the first page of my photobook, its a sentence stating that its hard to see whats right in front of you, its a symbolic sentence to some up my whole photobook that a lot goes on in a teenagers life, in their head, the reality, compared to what people actually see. As i find it very important to focus on these factors as a teenaer who’s not always loving the school life and stress.
these pages are to show stress and school and how school affect things that are meant to be so important, like sleep, all teenagers are told to get 8-10 hours of sleep as it keeps you wellrested and ready for the day but from the pile up of work and stress sometimes we aren’t getting to sleep until late in the morning, it also demonstartes anxiety and being overwhelmed by looking at the mess on the desk of papers and tests and homework and so on, and its also a mess that a teenager might get told off for.
This page continues on from the school pages as it shows what sometimes teenagers would rather be doing and use as a distraction.
This is how I was going to first present this page, when I looked at some Jim goldberg pages and realise this just didnt give the right affect it needed something more.
I then moved on to this page of adding the rain next to the image to make it seem like when you look out the window like archiewas this is what you can see, as rain gives a sad affect and also its a blurred skewed image of what might also be in the head.
this image actually didn’t end up staying in my final piece because it was more of a practise of writing on the image and didn’t look as good or professional as I wanted it also didn’t go with my other images.
this was my practice last page but I wasn’t feeling it as the images didn’t go how I wanted and it was too much going on.
I tried to give a continous balck background to all my images to add to the effect nd make the images stand out, I thought it wet well as it was dark and gloomier, and corresponded well with the majority black and white images, I also kept my writing on the images or next to them to keep the story because yes a photo tells 1000 stories but it was important that the teenagers stories actually ame out and was presented, it ry to keep a sequence of how I present my images ina decently together story.
To what extend is autobiography explored in the work of Jim Goldberg and Jo Spence?
‘Since 1970, I’ve been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There’s a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.’ – Jim Goldberg. [Jim Goldberg Online] [accessed 29 January 2025]
An autobiography is the story of oneself told by themselves. Autobiographical works can take many forms, from letters, to diaries to self publishing books about yourself. They are not always intended to be published, but sometimes they can answer history, or tell stories of ones who once lived, who did incredible things that went unnoticed. When it comes to autobiography in the forms of art, some artists tend to use their work as an autobiography, This to bring reality what actually goes on in their lives or make themselves more relatable to the one who looks at their work, they humanize themselves in their own creative way. In my area of study I will be focusing on identity, and teenage life, and what it is really like and how it can be seen by everyone else. In a way it is almost like an autobiography but also a biography for all other teenagers who can relate to my photobook. I will be analysing Jim Goldberg and Jo Spence in this essay, they are both photographers that I have looked at for inspiration. They both have an autographical sense to them in their work, Jim Goldberg focuses on others lives but represents his relationship to them through his text, which gives the autobiographical aspect, when Jo Spence uses her photography as a self-representation and self-exploration, which is very autobiographical. I want to analyse both these artists because I find their work not only incredibly touching and amazing, but they also relate to what I am doing and and fit well into autobiography. I will be responding to Jim Goldberg’s and Jo Spence’s work by not only using their images as an inspiration and creative guideline but also writing about the historical, theoretical, and visual cultural relevance to my area of study.
The historical concept of art, is a product of materials, cultural movements, and outcomes. The theoretical concept of art, shows within the philosophies of it that explains what art is, yet like philosophy it also opens even more questions. Art and photography also has lots of cultural relevance. Cultural relevance is taking account of the different cultural backgrounds. Art does this very well. Photography shows cutural relevance with its artists, they go out of their way to make images that can change the view of the world, just by showing all the different cultures. Two artists who show historical concept, theorerical, and cultural relevance, are the ones that I plan to study and write about in this essay, Jim Goldberg, and Jo spence. Jim Goldberg has a historical concept to is work. For example, his work Raised by Wolves is about teenagers who runaway and live on the streets of San Francisco. This has a historical concept as it about what teenagers have gone through, their past, their history and their story, which Goldberg’s gets to explore through photography. Goldberg not only tells history of child welfare and homelessness, but also makes history by talking about it, he shows the world what it is like for some children who dont have an easy life growing up. Jim Goldberg has a theoretical concept in his artwork as well, as he shows documentary work, and storytelling, this makes it theoretical as it plays around with illusions and it’s not meant to be concerned with hypothesis and theories. Now his cultural relevance is again within his book ‘Raised by Wolves’ he shows homelessness and neglect in a different light, as a subject that is overlooked and mistreated by mainstream media. Most people do not want to come to the reality of what it is really like for some children, some people and some cultures. This all relates to my area of study because I will have a historical, theoretical and cultural concepts in my project similarly to how Goldberg presents it his photobook. Jo Spence is the second artist I am studying and analysing in this essay. She also demonstrates historical, theoretical and cultural relevance. Spence shows historical concepts too and presents it through her illness and social class. This is all theoretical, because of the representation of identity she using throughout her work, especially in The Picture of Health. The cultural aspect comes into this as Spence lays out class, gender, and health. Her photography fights against social class “norms.” This also relates to my area of study as I focus on identity, with a touch of gender roles, mainly on women and slightly focusing on social class as a teenager. Just because we are in different classes does not mean that sometimes things going on in our lives cant be similar.
Jim Goldberg is an american photographer, he creates documentary-style photos that explore identity, homelessness, child welfare, and society. He demonstrates this in his photobook Raised by Wolves.’ This is a very impressive and powerful piece of work and I find his work incredibly moving because not only does he tell a relevant story, which took him over eleven years to create, but he adds in his own creative aspect of using written words over his images, explaining children’s stories and using the power of only one little sentence which can tell us everything about an individual in such a moving way. For example, ‘In the transcript Dave admits that he is “making things up” because “It doesn’t hurt as much” (36). Already we know that Tweeky Dave is who he says he is, who the other street children think he is, and not his “real” history.’
Jim Goldberg, page 30 and 31, Raised by wolves. 1995
Jim Goldberg’s work, looks into autobiography by showing peoples personal narratives, using juxtaposition between photographs with his own handwritten text next to them. The texts represents conversations Goldberg had with his subject when he was photographing them. The combination of images and text tell their stories more in-depth, which makes it more biographical. Goldberg does this by collaborating with his subjects, i.e. the young people he meets on the streets, and this represent the individuals own autobiographies. He explores others autobiography but also his own in the position as the narrator. Goldberg’s work is a complex examination into autobiography, which meandering past the dainty ridges into a casual wind, thus creating a ceaseless discourse between self and society.
Jim Goldberg, page 72 and 73, Raised by wolves. 1995
Jo Spence is a British photographer, who also explores identity, and her illness and social class. Spence explores autobiography through photographing her own body and life experiences. Her photography is moving and graphic to document her fight against cancer. she takes images of her body at its natural. It’s influential and inspiring as she shows herself in a genuine and vulnerable place. She turns her personal suffering into an journey of self exploration for not only herself but all the other women who look at her work, and are influenced by it, especially in her series of work The Picture of Health. She uses autobiography as the basis from which to consider the complexities of identity, vulnerability, and agency, employing her life truly as the site for challenging larger societal views on health, beauty, and the body, thus rendering her work a deeply personal yet universally relevant investigation of self.
Jo Spence, A picture of health, 1982
In conclusion, A clear parallel between Jim Goldberg and Jo Spence, is that both the artists engage with autobiography through documentary photography and self-portraiture. Jim Goldberg emphasises others lives, showing marginalised communities whereas Spence used her own body to express the narratives of illness and identity. Her struggle with cancer becomes her own autobiographical experience to contest social expectations of the body and health.
Goldberg and Spence both use photography as a means to confront concepts of identity, self-representations and social norms. Goldberg, for instance allows the stories of his subjects he photographs through texts alongside the images, creating an autobiography of sorts involving their life experiences and his own as the narrator. Spence, centers her own body but also life experience like Goldberg, and creates a personal autobiography. The two artists have worked allowing their own narratives to outline greater social issues.
However, Goldberg uses his photographers voice to tell stories of others. Autobiography becomes a slight biography as Goldberg holds the position of power with his camera that attempts to narrate a visual story, and links this story to his own productive engagement with others. In contrast, Spence is a more direct and stereotypical form of autobiography. She explores her illness and societal expectations by making self portraits of her body and her life. The difference lies in that Spence uses her own body as the central site of storytelling
In summary, Both artists explore autobiography, they demonstrate it in different ways but both very powerful, I plan to have a similar aspect to my final photobook, as I use both these artist as inspiration. I plan on creating an autobiography similar to Jim Goldberg as I will have photos or teenagers an teenage life, and what some teenagers resort to or what we usually do, using ideas from Goldberg, but it will also be similar to Jo Spence because it will be an autobiography on myself as well, because I am also a teenager and I live the same life I am just demonstrating it through other people, yes I don’t do all the same things but as they are my friends and their lives I feel I also relate being part of their lives. Here are some image example to show my similarities.
Jim Goldberg, page 220 and 221, Raised by wolves.1995
Jim Goldberg, page 22 and 23, raised by wolves. 1995.
Coco Moore, ‘Escape’ 2025.
Jo Spence, The Final Project, 1991–92, photograph.
1. Research a photo-book and describe the story it is communicating with reference to subject-matter, genre and approach to image-making.
‘The Americans’ – Robert Frank, Published 1958.
“The Americans” is Robert Frank’s vivid firsthand reportage from the contradictory and out-in-the-open society of America in the 1950s: alienation, social rifts, and chasms between the American dream and reality. Here indeed is the documentation of life, through unpolished, often unorthodox images, with grainy, blurred compositions and odd views where even the emotional intensity is powerfully felt in the visual representation. A documentary style mixes personal vision and brutal facts: an aesthetic deprivation in full strength with a critical, nuanced view of America.
2. Who is the photographer? Why did he/she make it? (intentions/ reasons) Who is it for? (audience) How was it received? (any press, reviews, awards, legacy etc.)
Robert Frank, 1924 – 2019.
Robert Frank created The Americans for a personal, critical view of American society, a reaction to the gulf between glamorized imagery and lived social realities. He was intent on assaulting the conformity of 1950s America, with a special focus on the racial and economic disparities that he believed the country bred. The book was targeted at just about anyone, but especially the people who were in doubt about what postwar America stood for. Reaction was mixed at first: some hailed its innovation, while others spurned it as a false view of America. Over the years, it became one of the most talked about works in the picture world, transformed the documentary photograph, and made Frank’s name as a pioneering visual artist.
3. Deconstruct the narrative, concept and design of the book and apply theory above when considering:
Book in hand: how does it feel? Smell, sniff the paper. -A book smells like a delicate blend of fresh paper, ink, and time—an earthy, nostalgic scent that mingles the crispness of the new with the mustiness of the old.
Paper and ink: use of different paper/ textures/ colour or B&W or both. -In The Americans, Robert Frank uses black-and-white photographs printed on textured paper, enhancing the raw, gritty realism of his documentary style.
Format, size and orientation: portraiture/ landscape/ square/ A5, A4, A3 / number of pages. –The Americans is a large, landscape-format book with 83 photographs spread across 128 pages, allowing Frank’s images to have a wide, immersive impact.
Binding, soft/hard cover. image wrap/dust jacket. saddle stitch/swiss binding/ Japanese stab-binding/ leperello – The Americans has a hardcover binding with a dust jacket and uses Swiss binding, allowing the book to open flat and display its photographs with durability.
Cover: linen/ card. graphic/ printed image. embossed/ debossed. letterpress/ silkscreen/hot-stamping. -The cover of The Americans is made of cardboard with a printed image and embossed title, reflecting the raw, simple aesthetic of Frank’s work.
Title: literal or poetic / relevant or intriguing. – The title The Americans is literal, referring to the subjects of the book, yet intriguing as it suggests a deeper exploration of the complexities and contradictions within American society.
Narrative: what is the story/ subject-matter. How is it told? -In The Americans, Robert Frank tells a story of postwar America through raw, black-and-white photographs that capture moments of alienation, social tension, and vulnerability, offering a critical and fragmented view of the nation’s complexities and contradictions.
Structure and architecture: how design/ repeating motifs/ or specific features develops a concept or construct a narrative. –In The Americans, Robert Frank uses a deliberate structure of seemingly unconnected, yet thematically linked, images to create a visual rhythm that reflects the fragmentation and diversity of American society, with repeating motifs such as shadows, reflections, and isolated figures reinforcing the themes of alienation and social disconnection.
Design and layout: image size on pages/ single page, double-spread/ images/ grid, fold- outs/ inserts. – In The Americans, the design and layout feature a mix of single-page and double-spread images, with varying image sizes that create a dynamic flow, while the use of sparse grid-like arrangements and occasional full-bleed photographs enhances the emotional impact, allowing the viewer to experience the narrative in a way that emphasizes both intimacy and expansiveness.
Editing and sequencing: selection of images/ juxtaposition of photographs/ editing process. -In The Americans, Robert Frank’s editing and sequencing of images carefully juxtapose moments of stark contrast, such as joy and despair, to highlight the tension and complexity of American life, with each photograph chosen for its ability to convey a deeper narrative, while the overall sequencing creates a rhythm that intensifies the emotional resonance of the book.
Images and text: are they linked? Introduction/ essay/ statement by artists or others. Use of captions (if any.) -In “The Americans”, Robert Frank links images through sequencing rather than captions, allowing the photographs to speak universally, while Jack Kerouac’s poetic introduction provides a thematic frame, inviting viewers to interpret the fragmented reality of post-war America on their own terms.
UNDERSTANDING PHOTOBOOKS: NARRATIVE, EDITING, SEQUENCING, DESIGN, FORM, FUNCTION
Literary sources: Go to this blog post here: Theory: Literary Sources and copy relevant key texts relating to the subject of your essay and list in alphabetical order in your bibliography. In addition, find your own key texts in relation to artists selected for in-depth analysis in your essay and list these too. These texts could be interviews with the artist, or reviews/ critique’s written by others. See useful online sites/ sources here .
Research and identify 3-5 literary sources from a variety of media such as books, journal/magazines, internet, Youtube/video that relates to your personal study and artists references .
Begin to read essay, texts and interviews with your chosen artists as well as commentary from critics, historians and others.
It’s important that you show evidence of reading and draw upon different pints of view – not only your own.
Take notes when you’re reading…key words, concepts, passages, page number to be used for in-text referencing etc.
Essay Question
Think of a hypothesis and list possible essay questions
Below is a list of possible essay questions that may help you to formulate your own.
Some examples of Personal Study essays from previous students:
Essay Plan Make a plan that lists what you are going to write about in each paragraph – essay structure
Essay question:
How have concepts of childhood, loss and memory been explored in the photo books of Yury Toropstov and Laia Abril?
In what wat is identity and autobiography expressed in the work of Chino Otsuka and Tom Hunter?
In what way does Justine Kurland and Michelle Sank explore youth and femininity through their work?
To what extend is autobiography explored in the work of Jim Goldberg and Jo Spence?
Opening quote
Introduction (250-500 words): What is your area study? Which artists will you be analysing and why? How will you be responding to their work and essay question?
Pg 1 (500 words): Historical/ theoretical context within art, photography and visual culture relevant to your area of study. Make links to art movements/ isms and some of the methods employed by critics and historian.
Pg 2 (500 words): Analyse first artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
Pg 3 (500 words): Analyse second artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
Conclusion (250-500 words): Draw parallels, explore differences/ similarities between artists/photographers and that of your own work that you have produced
Bibliography: List all relevant sources used –
Wells L. (1998). ‘The Photographic Gaze’ in Photography: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.
To what extend is autobiography explored in the work of Jim Goldberg and Jo Spence?
Opening quote: use something Goldberg or Spence has said from any of the key text in your bibliography
Autobiography, as a theme in contemporary art, allows artists to reflect on and question the intersection of personal experience with broader social, political, and cultural contexts. In the work of photographers Jim Goldberg and Jo Spence, autobiography is explored not merely as a form of self-reflection but as a tool for social critique and identity construction. While both artists engage deeply with their personal lives, their approaches diverge significantly in terms of methodology, subject matter, and intent. Goldberg’s work blends documentary photography with personal narrative, using text to reveal the intimate relationships between himself and his subjects, thus embedding his autobiography within a larger social commentary on class, power, and marginalization. On the other hand, Jo Spence’s autobiographical exploration is overt and personal, often focusing on her own body and health, particularly through her struggle with breast cancer. Spence uses photography as a means of self-representation and self-exploration, engaging in a performative act of reclaiming her identity in the face of illness and societal expectations. This essay will examine how Goldberg and Spence each explore autobiography in their work, considering the ways in which they both navigate the personal and the political, and how their approaches contribute to a broader conversation about the role of the self in art.
My area of study is into identity, mainly focusing on how you can present yourself differently to everyone and looking into the anxieties of a teenage girl, especially in my life.
I will be analysing Jim Goldberg and Jo spence in this essay, I am looking into them as they also do a lot on identity. Jim Goldberg mainly as a child, and jo spence into womanhood, I also like their creative aspects to their photography that I hope to also use. I will be responding to their work by making some similar photos which I will later use as a comparison, i will the respond to this essay question by first giving my introduction on them both, then having a paragraph each to how autobiography is especially explored in both their work, then maybe having paragraphs on similarities and differences and finish with a conclusion.
Essay Paragraph 1 (draft)
Historical/ theoretical context within art, photography and visual culture relevant to your area of study. Make links to art movements/ isms and some of the methods employed by critics and historian.
The primary theme jotted down in a life writing is to give life and include autobiographical statements on photography works done by Jim Goldberg and Jo Spence and the general drift in photography and visual culture towards the personal narrative and subjective experience. During the 1970s and 1980s, the artists’ practices were largely identified with the postmodernists, who were always critiquing the aspect of objectivity and universal truth within the realm of art. Photographs as self testaments through Rich and Poor (Goldberg 1985) or through The Picture of Health? (Spence 1982-86) reveal photography as a medium to discuss identity, class, and the politics of representation. “I was politicized by my own experiences. I use photography as a means of exposing and dealing with the hidden politics of everyday life, including my own.” – Jo Spence. While both referring to the traditions of documentary photography and conceptual art, they interrogate the power relations in image-making, reminiscent of what theorists wrote about photography claiming neutrality and truth. This is because by integrating a handwritten text with the portrait, Goldberg found an interpretative space within which to situate both image and subject, while including genealogies of feminist critique and psychoanalysis in an autobiographical view, drawing a portrait of many critical experiences in the lives of these authors. “My work is a collaboration with the people I photograph. Their words, their voices, are as important as the image itself.” – Jim Goldberg. In other words, both artists, through their personal experiences, render the self an object of contestation, critique, and ultimately, alternative approaches to autobiographical writing in visual culture challenge the traditional narratives surrounding it. This personal-contextualization is what then situates their work in the line of a socially engaged art: in history, using methodologies adopted by historians and critics that value context and ideology over form.
These are all my final edits, my story was coming together and I figured how I wanted to do it, well ish still need some thinking time, but I was likely how my images were turning out, I changed how I wrote on the images though, as I wrote down what I wanted on the images, then I took a photo of it then I deleted the white background and made it transparent to then drag it and place it on an image.
This was my first photoshoot, I decided to write and draw on my face to give an affect that there was different parts of my face.
In all of these, I do a basic edit of making them black and white and using the brush to darken the lines on my face, these where some of my final decisions of the best ones from all different outcomes, I also gave a little adjustment on things like exposure and contrast just to add to it.
Photoshoot 2:
This was my second photoshoot editing that was just painting I made of my silhouette and I only really straighten them up and cropped them and changed the exposure.
After making some little adjustments in Lightroom I moved these photos to photoshop to make a completely white background and this is how they came out.
Adding to the photoshoot, I got inspiration of something to experiment with photos I took in my first experimental self portrait photoshoot.
This was my first attempt, well actually my 20th, as i was trying with ai and it wasn’t really doing what i wanted, this is my best one and for my first practise, i like it but its not perfect, im going to try again using ai and actual paint.
This was my attempt with actual paint, as you can see I made everything black and white apart from the paint, I thought this look cool but it didn’t really make much sense and was a bit of a mess and kind of scary.
I created this photo in Lightroom, but adding strokes of higher exposure with the brush to add a sunlight affect, I thought this photo was really cool but didn’t make any sense for my photobook.
This photo I made in photoshop, I love this image as it gives a really good broken glass affect on my face, I wanted to actually try this with a real mirror but thought I can experiment and I loved the outcome.
Photoshoot 3:
In most of these photos all I did was turn them black and white, I wasn’t sure how they were going to play into my photobook and final piece so I just wanted to make them look better and correct and adjust any bits and bobs, I like their outcomes but they were boring and I was trying got figure out the story.
Photoshoot 4:
In this photoshoot I was certain I knew the story of trying so hard in school and life and it not being good enough so i made a tableaux photoshoot of setting up a class setting and made them black and white to give a depressing affect.
Once again it was a lot of black and white photos and back to having a bunch of random and different ideas for a photobook, and taking photos but not knowing what I was doing, all these photos ended up better then I expected once I edited.
Now this photo gave me the idea of my final piece, I decided to really be inspired off of Jim Goldberg and I printed off this photo from an earlier photoshoot and wrote and scratched on it to then retake the photo.
I took 334 photos in this photoshoot, as a trial, I wanted to try some self portraits, as I am into portraits and a lot of my personal study will revolve around, self portraits. Some images were blurry but it was only a trial to also give myself some inspo.
I selected only 25 photos, but I’m not certain I will use any, for my actual piece but I might use some as an experiment of editing to see if it will work for other photos.
Photoshoot 2:
In my second photoshoot I took 81 photos. these where again in the studio and these photos where the ones with drawing on my face showing different parts.
I limited it down to 58 photos which I will continue to cut down as I edit and decide which ones I want to keep and not.
Photoshoot 3:
I did a third photoshoot at home, which was experimental on what I actually wanted to do, I planned on having a juxtaposition of self portraits and splatter painting, when trying to do these splatter painting it didn’t turn out how I wanted so I attempted a different way.
Photoshoot 4:
In my fourth photoshoot, I took 411 photos at the bowling alley, a part and in my room.
I was then left with 81 photos that I selected that I plan to edit.
Photoshoot 5:
In this photoshoot I took 67 photos in school, staging a classroom. tableaux affect.
I then slimed that down to 16 images that i plan on maybe using and editing.
Photoshoot 6:
This was my 6th photoshoot in my friends house and balcony of him smoking. and things in his room or himself.
I ended up only have five photos from this photoshoot that i plan to use and edit.
Photoshoot 7:
This was my 7th photoshoot of photos I have already taken and then printed off to write on them, I will probably use them, but this was a first porotype of what I will do with other images.
I was left with 3 of these.
Photoshoot 8:
Then I took 10 photos from a previous photoshoot from my mirrors and windows topic to hopefully use in this topic.
Places around jersey that I think have a relation to anxiety
In school
Photos that will demonstrate working hard
Who?
My family
My friends
Me
My teachers
Landscapes
When?
Weekends
After school
During school
Whenever possible
What will I use?
Celetape
Mask
Lights
Projector
Pen
clock
mirror
paper
desk
hourglass
Why?
I will be honest, I struggles trying to find an idea for this topic, at first I was so excited because it would be fully my idea and I could be so creative and do what I wanted. Then I couldn’t think of idea, I got into a slump. I finally figured an idea on personality, as I realised I was always perceived differently by everyone, and no one really knew the true me, and thought that’s the same for everyone, case you can be whoever you want to be to anyone, and as long as your making them happy they probably wont questions it. I started to take photos of myself I wanted o use, spoke t some friends about my idea and they said it was great. then I spoke to my teachers, and I never felt like I was getting a great sense of love for my idea, always thought that’s a bit unfair, seeming’s as art is subjective, but I know they want to help, so I kept thinking, used them to help me but was still in a slump. Then I realised you know it can still be about identity but maybe only my anxiety, as I seem that’s pretty bad and its something that can go unseen from people but also something a lot of people can relate to. its also something that is darker and for some reason people love a darker deeper book. Took more photos. a lot of photos but just of things I found photogenic, maybe I could relate to my topic but not sure. then as I was upset because I wasn’t doing the best I could do in this topic I started thinking oh damn I know something personal about me relating to anxiety and all of this, and that’s me working so hard and sometimes it not being noticed or it getting hard and sometimes I need a hand or someone to notice its not because I’m lazy its because I’m struggling. so now after a million different thoughts on this topic I still have a million but I know to just take photos and try stuff and something will workout. so that Is how and why my photoshoot plans became a thing. I’m still trying buttt we will make it work because I believe I can.
