Directions within Photographic communication

I used Francesca Woodman as an inspiration as she used herself in all her work. I was also inspired by her playful use of setting often playing hide and seek behind things in the background. By using long shutter speeds she often looks to be blurred and in many places at one time.

The additional information of the fact that "in January 1981, a young American photographer called Francesca Woodman committed suicide by jumping off a building in lower Manhattan." gives her images an extra meaning of something disturbing and unsettling going on in her life.

" Within five years of her death, Woodman was hailed as something virtually unheard of within the male-dominated world of photography: a female prodigy who had left behind an improbably mature body of work, consisting of more than 800 pictures."

These are some examples of her work

Books falling.

These images I created to be a set of images to be placed in the centre of the book. I wanted this to show these images as a physical representation of the pressures of being dyslexic. I did not want my work to be serious, but more humourous like that of Keith Arnatt which I believe this work does.

Bed Covered In Paper

I chose the setting of a bedroom to create this series of images. I covered the bed in paper and used the glow of a bedside lamp to light the image. I wanted the images to have an eery nightmare quality to them. I wanted these images to be spread thought the images so they would be the images that held the others together. The idea of dyslexia being really hard to cope with and something you cannot escape from made me think of nightmares and that is what I tried to incorporate in these images.

Me In A Box

The idea behind this image was the continuing labelling that comes from saying that you are dyslexic, or the total opposite and not telling anyone then they think that you are just stupid, not that there is actually something wrong with you. It is also significant of how I felt I was dealt with in primary school, which was to put me on stupid table and let me get on with it.

Wall Covered In Paper

I wanted this image to be humerous, I wanted the viewer to think how is she meant to read all of that? Which is what I feel like sometimes.

Me Behind Trees

This image was to look like I am trying to hide or escape from reality by using the trees to hide behind.

Me Reading Book in A Tree

As I know I spell like a child I wanted to create an image reminiscent of childhood, such as reading a children's book and climbing trees.

Me Using Books As Weights

Yet again I wanted to create an image which was humourous, which shows the struggles of dyslexics.

Me In Mirror

I wanted to show me looking in the mirror with myself trying to escape in the reflection. I wanted the people starring back to be like me trying to remember, I get frustrated tying to tell my brain that I know what something says or how to spell anything.

Blurred Words Over Face

When faced with a lot of text sometimes it can all merge into one big blur and makes things difficult to take in and remember.

Bath

This image is of me in a bath with Photoshopped books which I had taken in a different photo shoot. I wanted this image to be significant of a struggle/ drowning in information.