Still exploring the idea of a project based around self portraiture and my own mental health issues, I came across this article in Black+White Photography magazine. The article focuses on photographer Katrein De Blauwer whose work was inspired by her troubled childhood. ‘I start with emotions… love, pain, loneliness. The last is the present for me’. Although I visually like the work, it is the way in Katrein speaks about her project that inspires me. My own work is very much based around emotions and how with this module I want to look specifically into what events in the past shaped my life and explore what triggered my social anxiety.
Although the work is produced using film, it is a similar style to the type of work I want to produce. It has a ‘scrap book’ feel to it. The work is in no perfect, which is what makes it feel so personal. Because of the work feeling like it comes from some form of diary, as a viewer we feel as though we are being given a private insight into the life of Katrein De Blauwer. She herself says the she is ‘happy for it to be open to interpretation’. Again, this is very similar in regards to the intention for my work. As the project is so personal to me, it is up to the viewer to decide what it is I’m trying to represent and if it relates to them.
Interrogating Practice 