With Self Harming there is a lot more than just the attacker stage of things it is a lot more emotional. What I wanted to take photographs of is the leading up to the individual attacking themselves and what they would go through. My friend who harmed herself told me what she was going through when she was about to attack herself and this is what my photograph is portraying. My friend said that she would sit on the floor and put her head in her hands and what everything to go away, she would think of things in her head such as kill, self harm, death, destroy because that is what she as doing to her body and what she wanted to follow through with, she would cuddle her toys because they would comfort her when she was going through this, she thought they were the only things that could support her. She was the victim and attacker during this because she is the victim in the fact that she did not want to do it and her cuddle toys were trying to comfort her and trying to make her not do it, but the thoughts that were going around her head was the attacker coming through and making things worse for her and she felt the only way to stop them going round her head is to actually follow through with it.
I have taken the photograph in black and white and normal because I was unsure on what would look better and what would represent the self harming aspect of things in a better light, I do like the black and white photograph as I feel the words stand out more and individuals are able to notice them more when they are looking at the photograph.
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