IDEA ONE.

 Idea: For my final major project idea, I considered to create a series of photographic work relating to the theme of mental health, particularly focusing on my own mental health, using this as a method to spread awareness about a topic that most people aren't always open about or comfortable with talking about. I thought that by focusing on this idea for my final major project I could potentially focus on portraying and documenting my own struggles with mental health though the use of portraiture photography and photo editing and manipulation techniques to both spread awareness and share my own story and experiences with my target audience. 

For this idea I could look into the work of contemporary and historical photographers and artists who have also focused their work on this theme such as:

• Christian Hopkins
• Katie Joy Crawford
• Edward Honoker
• Janelia Mould

Themes: For this idea I would be focusing on these themes within my photographic work. I would be focusing on the use of portraiture and documentary photography, possibly combined with photo manipulation and editing techniques and maybe a little bit of typography, in order to portray the themes of personal stories and experiences and mental health such as Anxiety and Depression and BPD. By focusing my photographic work on these themes, I hope to portray these personal themes and stories in an impacting way that will help to raise further awareness of these issues and how they can be spoken about more openly now than perhaps they could have been in the past. 

Locations: For my photographs for this project idea I could potentially take photographs in these places:

• Studio spaces
• My house 
• My bedroom 
• My bathroom
• My back-garden 
• The woods near my house. 

Photos Needed: For this piece of work I have considered focusing my photographic responses on portraiture, self-portraiture, and documentary with the focus of the photos mainly on myself and photo manipulation and editing techniques, to tell my own story and experiences with my struggle with mental health issues including Anxiety, Depression and BPD, either in outdoors locations like my back-garden or the woods near my house, or even more private locations such as my own home or within a studio space at my university.

By limiting my locations for this idea I felt that I could easily show how isolating issues such as mental health can be, often by limiting your access to the outside world and only going as far as five minutes walk away from your house when my mental health takes a dip.