This work was originally meant to be about photo therapy and using photography as a form of self help, which I believe it still is, however I feel it has gone a lot deeper into it now, I feel this is work I will look back at in the future to hopefully see how far I have come in terms of my mental health, it sort of reminds me a bit of Hugh Welch Diamond, the psychiatrist a female lunatic asylum in surrey. He would photograph the patients to be able to better diagnose them with the mental illness’s they were suffering with, but also to be able to distinguish whenever they have improved in their health. In a way, I feel this work will work as my self portrait which I can look back on.
It is seeming that the work I have produced so far has sort off turned into a space where I have let out some of my feelings and emotions, which is something that has taken me a really long time to do, so being able to make a project out of it is quite scary but also exciting. I am looking forward to seeing the final product, although I do fear that my mental health will have impacted my abilities in it. This project is seeming to be a bit triggering for me as well, so we shall see.