PHOTOGRAPHY

I began the school with an intention to create a eerie dark feel to it. I had a story and different scenes in my head. Maire sits alone outside, her head riddled with confusion. I shot a various range of very close up shots of Maire. I asked her to convey sorrow, pain and hurt. I zoomed in close to capture the expressions in her face. The sadness in her eyes draws you in. I want people to stop and stare. I want them to wonder why is the girl in the picture so sad? My photography is an emotional 

mechanism, drawing people in so that they view the video room to find out the story behind these images. I want the viewer to feel emotionally involved with my piece and experience something unique that it stays with them. I want my work to stand out and be remembered. 

She keeps her affairs to herself, bottled up. Soon she will explode. Later she is in the toilets, looking in the mirror at her reflection, she becomes angry with herself. She scraps the walls with sheer frustration. She is frightened and alone inside but hatred and anger cover this up on the outside. 

She stands in the middle of the corridor, her arms folded. Her guard is up. She looks sad, alone. There is cracks on the walls and 

ceiling, with the paint pealing off. Her surroundings are unstable, she is in a fragile state. When I shot this photographthe sun shined in the windows filling the hall with beautiful purples and blues. The vivid colours really captured the photo and brought it to life. Sometimes your just ‘in the right place at the right time’ and indeed i was.

I found a little jagged hole round the back of the school in the old shed. It  became interesting to me when I peered through and seen a vast open landscape, so free, but I was confined  in this dark place only able to look out from within. 

I took a ray of shots of Maire behind netting and bar cage of a tennis court. I wanted to convey a 

metaphorical element of her being trapped in her own mind. The bars represent her confinement. Horrific flashbacks of childhood memories she had tried to forget can never be forgotten. There is no escape from her past and the feelings that come with it.

My final shots represents the confusing and lack of control Maire has over herself. Flashbacks, forgetfulness, sever emotional changes...I wanted to portray the true terror of this. I blurred some of my photos to show the distorted mental state Maire is in.