Context and Narrative: Assignment Three – Reworked Submission
There were so many things I hadn’t really thought of in the feedback from my tutor and once again I think much of this is down to the fact that I struggle to think about more than two or three aspects of the project at once. I think some of this is due to the…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Three – Reflection and Feedback
This assignment turned out to be much more tricky than I had imagined. Considering it came from an idea I had and not directly from the brief it should have been easier. I had an aim but at times found myself going off in different directions. Having discovered that images can indeed communicate something, I…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Three – Self Portraiture – Planning and creation of images
Having decided to create a series which includes the initial adoptions in the early 1960s and then potentially the reunions in the late 70s. My first task was to scour the internet to find suitable images. This turned out to be far harder than I imagined but kept away from stock photo sites where licenses…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Three – Self Portraiture – Submission
Summary Having gained permission from my Tutor to veer away from the brief, this series of images attempts to communicate a specific issue around adoptions in and around the 1960s. And the subsequent reuniting as an adult with birth families, identity and being a “stranger”. It focuses on the idea that a child is a…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Three – Self Portraiture – Research – Adoption and Identity
IDENTITY Looking at the issue of Identity from an adoptee perspective is a large and complex subject as described by Silverstein and Kaplan (1984) in their article Lifelong Issues in Adoption ……often express feelings related to confused identity and identity crises, particularly at times of unrelated loss. Identity is defined both by what one is and…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Three – Self Portraiture – Research – Adoption
Adoption The process Early adoption processes in England were generally quite different in the 1950s and 1960s. The stigma of being an unmarried mother meant that there were far more babies put up for adoption and too often there was pressure put on these women by family members or authority figures to go down the…
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