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This project was created during the first year of my Masters Degree in Photography.
This project uses photography to portray lived experience and inner emotions. The work centred on the challenges of my daughter as she struggled with the unusual challenges of isolation and lockdown as well as the time worn challenges of puberty and growing up.
Within this work I used staged photography and often layered compositing to produce images that are often highly planned and considered yet on the whole my goal is to create images that are possible, or nearly possible to have been observed.
My aim was to depict her world through staged imagery, to create visual representations of the worlds children find themselves in.
Concepts explored within the project are: increased reliance on digital devices for social connections; increased reference to imaginary friends; and the nightmare that was ‘home-schooling’.
I hope that through creating these visual representations and metaphors adults may better comprehend and understand the challenges this generation of children are now going through, and that children may use the resulting images as an outlet for describing or reflecting on their own experiences.