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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