SIMILIAR WORK

There has been a lot of examples I have touched upon when it comes to mental illness and what I focused on is self-harming, I feel this is a raw and tough subject to approach and to speak out about, but a lot of photographs have captured self harming in their work. The work of other photographers which I have looked at relates to mine due to the gritty and dark side these images have but also the connection between them, I am not looking into doing exactly what the photographer does but looking at them as an example is making me broader my horizon and is giving me more and more ideas every time.

While looking through my blog you will find many images featured on my blog which I can relate back to but my key example are mental illness self harming work in progress even though this image has been changed a lot I'm keeping it too focus on, I feel that a lot of the time individuals harm themselves in a bathroom and somewhere out of the way, this made me look at Larry Clark and his photography which is dark and gloomy and doesn't glamourise self harming, his photography inspired me because he is showing people the amount of suffer and struggle they go through each and everyday of their lives and that is what I want to portray in my images. Another one which is a key example is mental illness C - Paige he has taken a photograph of an individual and has written comments which individuals have said to her all over her body. I have taken an image myself in relation to C - Paige's image but what I would like to change and what has inspired to do something similar but instead of showing the individual just show her back as it adds to mystery, I also feel it would bring more meaning behind the image which I have taken.

Not only have I done this but I have now thought of bringing ideas into my project and thinking more about why these individuals do it, is it through such things as plastic surgery or being called names, I have taken a few images which are on my blog as I feel researching more in depth with reasons behind self harming will really open up my mind.