Research plan

Prior skills:
  • Working with film and processing and developing in the darkroom
  • Using a medium format camera, e.g. Mamiya RB67, Fujifilm rangefinder
  • Portraiture and working with new people
Objectives:
  • Document the transition and change of my younger sister during encroaching adolescence and puberty
  • Present the theme of female identity and its layered construction within my work
  • Photographically comment on connotations associated with adolescent females and address themes such as vulnerability and innocence, in particular the 'loss of innocence' during adolescence
Research requirements:
  • Research photographers that explore the ideas of puberty, change, transition and adolescence
  • Explore theories associated with innocence - Roland Barthes
Resources:
  • Exhibition at The Photographer's Gallery: 'Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity'
  • Research work of photographers: Jocelyn Lee, Melissa Ann Pinney, Jock Sturges, Lillian Birnbaum, Tobias Zielony
  • Uni library, internet, magazines, The British Library, gallery catalogues, archives, newspapers, exhibitions 

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