ISSUES & CONCERNS
Issues and concerns
Photography is often used to highlight important issues and concerns. Dorothea Lange documented the struggle of migrant workers during the Great Depression. For the book The Poverty Line, Stefen Chow produced photographs over a ten-year period, exploring the issue of food poverty. Olafur Eliasson highlighted concerns about global warming in his work The glacier melt series 1999/2019. In the book HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene, Jo-Anne McArthur highlights animal welfare issues. Investigate appropriate sources and produce your own response to Issues and concerns
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Loneliness, depression, anxiety and despair.
Images to depict the sense of helplessness but balances with a feeling of enduring hope.
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Photography has the ability to tackle difficult subjects with a lightness of touch and a sensitivity that can start a much needed conversation. In the last 12 months two pupils at a local school have taken their own lives. With no sense of hope and lost in the darkness of depression I feel it would be important to address this topic. I feel fortunate to have both a supportive family and an amazing group of friends who I know I could lean on should the darkness come but I would like to explore the concept of hiding behind a mask, where a person can hide their pain and true feelings behind a facade of happiness.
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While this will no doubt lead to a series of uncomfortable images I think it important to show that we all have the ability to be the shining light of hope in the ives of others and that our support can be the out stretched hand of hope that can help lead them back into the light and out of the darkness.
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