I have many images that I would have liked to use for this competion but I went with this at it is one of my favourit images in the series ‘Dirty Word’.
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Portrait of Britain: British Journal of Photography
The BJP currenltly has a competion on for the portrait of Britain, I have entered images from my series ‘Dirty word’. I am very happy with these images and it’s a great chance to get my work out there!
These are the images submitted, if you would like to have a closer look head over to my submission.
Dirty Word: Zeynab
As part of the series ‘Dirty word’ I have been speaking to members of the local feminist society. Talking to Zeynab was very interesting as we are from different parts of the word but still have similar ideas on feminism. My favourite part of this project is speaking to people who have different backgrounds to myself on topics that effect everyone.
Graduate Publication
As part of being on the exhibition we have to plan the images we want in the publication and have an artist statement. Doing this I took a whole weekend to do my artist statement and choose my images as if I get the artist statement wrong it could give off the completely wrong message to what the project is about.
Dirty word
Modern day feminism is much more than the stereotypical angry man hating woman, it’s about making everyone feel equal. This project set out to challenge the stereotype of what a feminist is by photographing a collection of people who have an idea of making everyone’s lives better. Women like Beyoncé are praised for their ideas of feminism so why is it that everyday people are mocked and dismissed for the same idea?A positive idea of a feminist cannot be forced but as society moves forward and people are willing to have a conversation; feminist will no longer be seen as a dirty word.
Dirty Word: Lucy
This is part of my ‘Dirty Word’ series, this is Lucy and is the president of the Huddersfield feminist society. Lucy was a big factor to this project as she is such a passionate person and showed me that femininst although they have a bad reputation are out to help everyone.
Alumni Day
This is the second alumni day that we have had and again they were really helpful. Speaking to Tom he told me to focus on the facial expressions of the people i was shooting as some of them can come across fashion like. I need to look at squencing as in the dummy book all the strong images are at the beginning of the book at at the end it falls apart and isnt as strong. If i want to do a book as part of my project the squencing needs to be consistantly strong.
Speaking to Silvanna was lovely as always and she gave me great advice as well. She told me that even if I don’t use all the images from my London shoot; that I should consider using them in a seperate project which is something I would very much like to do. She recommended talking to the people a bit more before shooting them as then we will feel more comfortable with each other and its not as awkward with people new to being infront of a camera.
Interim Exhibition
We recently had our interim exhibtion, this was our final one before our exhibition in June. I spent a long time on the lay out and looking at the sizing of the images. My classmates went round and said 5 things about the project on post-its. They were really helpful comments, most of them suggested making a book which is something I’m now looking into. They also liked the layout of the images which I was happy about as I spent a long time. Other comments said that I need to work on my artist statement as it was too obvious which is something I will work on. The idea of framing was suggested which is something I want to look into but I’m not sure if I like them the way they are; I will test and see which works best.
London march against racism 2018
I really enjoyed this march, I’ve never attended a protest before and I went hoping to get some shots for my current project and although I have some images I could use; there are alot of images I am thinking about attending more in the future and making this in to a project of its own.
Nasty Women exhibtion!
I was lucky enough to be envolved with Nasty Womens Liverpools exhibtion which was rasing funds for a charity and a piece of my work was up for sale. It was the first time I’ve shown my work outside of university. It was a wonderful evening and I’m so glad i got to take part. It was a great experience to see the art community outside of uni and I thought it would be a great opportunity to take some photographs for my project.
This is the piece I chose to show and on their instagram
New shoot!
With looking at feminist I think it is important to speak to everyone involved and see what their views are on the matter. I’ve decied that I need to speak to each person I photograph and try and incorprate them into my work some how; whether it’s quotes or something they have wrote. Going forward I’m going to record our conversations (if they are okay with it) and see if I can use what they say. Maybe this will help structure the project better.
Artistic word-vomit 