Francesca woodman

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