After having been introduced to our final major project, I knew that this was an opportunity for me to really show who I am as a person and it seemed like something that I could really get my teeth into. When looking at starting a larger project, I really need to think about what I would like to do, what I am passionate about and the time frame in which I will do this in. So I know that I have only 12 weeks to complete this in so therefore, I can't be too ambitious with my expectations, but I shouldn't limit myself either. First things first, I need to generate ideas. The first thing that popped into my head was mental health. I knew that this is something which I would like to explore within my own work to raise awareness for different mental health conditions. There was also a couple of other ideas which I had floating around my head such as the black lives matter social movement, green energy, addiction and poverty. This was all some food for thought so I decided to make a mind map to really jot all of my ideas down so I could visualise what I could want to do. So before finally deciding what idea I would like to do, I am going to do a little bit of research into 3 ideas which are; mental health, Identity and LGBTQIA+. Even though the three go hand in hand, there are some different routes that I could go down if I experiment with each individual topic. Idea 1: The first topic I am going to experiment with is mental health. For me, mental health is such an important topic due to me having mental health issues myself. But within the topic of mental health there are so many different avenues for me to explore, I could go down the eating disorder, mood disorders or even some taboo topics such as self harm. The first thing I do when giving myself a topic is create a Pinterest board as this is a great way to give myself inspiration for different aspects of the topic. Here is a link to the Pinterest board that I created for the topic of mental health. Then I decided to create a moodboard to further develop the intial ideas that I had. After having a look around the internet there was quite a lot of image manipulation and drawing over the top of the images, this is something which intrigues me further into wanting to research more into it. Idea 2: The second topic I am going to research more into is identity. The word identity has different meanings for each person and it varies from age groups, to people. Again the first thing I do when looking at a topic is I create a Pinterest board to bring my ideas into one little page which is easy to see. Here is the link to the Pinterest board. Then I decided to create a moodboard to further develop the intial ideas that I had. Image manipulation seems to be quite a big thing in the world of photography with the topic of identity. This is something which I would like to use in my work in the future. Idea 3: The final topic which I am going to be looking deeper into is the topic of LGBTQIA+. I love to photograph topics which need to have awareness brought to them or topics which are taboo or sometimes not seen as a very popular topic to talk about in society as general. Here is the link to the Pinterest board shown below. With this topic I noticed that there was two main ways to go down, which was being subtle with just having two people in the photograph or being majorly explicit with the gay pride flag being the centre of attention. After putting all of my ideas down, I soon realised that there was one overwhelming topic that I knew that I had to raise awareness for. That topic was:
Mental Health For me, I have suffered with mental health issues and I struggled to talk about it at the time but now, I realised that it was only because I felt like no one really wanted to know how I was feeling and that I was a burden to everyone. So therefore, I try to support people by raising awareness of different mental health conditions. The main reason as to why I have chosen to develop on the topic of mental health is because it is a topic which is close to my heart making me want to complete a series of images to bring awareness to the subject. Plus, I felt like I already had some prior knowledge on the topic of mental health whereas in comparison to the topics of identity and LGBT, I knew a little bit about but not enough information for me to be confident that I am showing a visual representation of the complete truth and not just some pre-misconceptions.
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