The concept of my final major project is surrounding mental health conditions. As someone that has suffers from BPD (borderline personality disorder) I know what it is like to suffer from their own mental health. I want my photography to tackle important and necessary issues within society that need to be spoken about. I initially approached the subject with my own preconceptions and finished the project with a lot more knowledge surrounding the topic of mental health. Throughout the project I have learnt a lot of new skills, for example, working with a medium format camera. I used many different materials such as the Canon 5d Mark IV, the Mamiya 67RB medium format camera with 100ISO film, a polaroid camera, the screen-printing equipment, and many other different materials. All the materials used are associated with Photography as most of them are cameras, but the screen printing can be associated with photography due to you can put a photograph on the screen to be able to print onto the material of your choosing. I thought that my final images were to a high standard and I was really impressed with how they turned out in the end. I thought that they were better than I originally thought that they would turn out when I was experimenting with all of the images that I took. There were some barriers with the main one being my own illness, I had many different illnesses throughout the time of my FMP. I simply overcame this by mainly doing research whilst I was ill and anytime I had spare when I wasn’t ill I put it into doing practical work. If I was to do this project again, I would ideally have more time to fulfil all of my practical work when I would like to do so. I would also make sure that I was doing as many shoots as possible and refining my work to a higher standard to allow me to be able to improve in the future. I would also like to display my work differently if I had extra time and money I would have done a bigger piece of the image with no mouth and I would love to use this idea further potentially when I finish the course/after the course.
Due to the topic of mental health being quite a sensitive subject, I needed to ensure that all of my work was maintaining being ethical and ensuring that I was being morally correct. For example, it would have been a bit of an awkward subject if I were to photograph someone about to commit suicide. In addition, to prevent others feeling bad surrounding their images being used. To prevent this, I took images of myself so I know that there would be no repercussions of posting the images elsewhere. Unfortunately I know that my work may not have been sustainable by using a lot of paper, plastic and other materials. This is something which I would need to take note on in my future studies, potentially looking at how my work could be made more environmentally sustainable. I had some feedback off of my peers surrounding my work and below there is some feedback that I was given. Mark Fraser – “Well, Bradley what can I say, well it's dark really dark and I must admit to loving it. What you are trying to say comes across really well. The only thing I am going to say is can you do something happy next as I am starting to get a little traumatised. Well done mate.” Sarah Pritchard – “I mean this in the best possible way brad, but the longer I look at your work the more uncomfortable I feel. Particularly, the one with no mouth. It reminds me a bit of “i have no mouth and i must scream”, as it gives you that same feel of unease. I don’t know if that’s what you were going for, but it’s definitely something to write about. Either way good photos!” Ashley Brown – “Dark and powerful as always Bradley. I love how you have developed your style and you are producing such quality photographs. Can't wait to see what's next.” Overall, I feel like my work has been appreciated for what I wanted it to be. I feel like it has given the message across to the viewer how I wanted it to and I am impressed with my own work.
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