Project Proposal

I decided to do the contemporary issue - Teenage depression
My photographs will show models looking depressed - and how they are dealing with it. For the images I want to edit them to an extent to create a sort of gloomy, detached feeling when you view them as this is similar to how you feel when you see someone depressed or are depressed yourself.
Alot of teenage depression photos are pretty cliche. There is always just one teenager looking sad and although this is perfectly valid, I dont feel anything from viewing the photographs as they have no emotion involved. Whether it is the models fault or the photographers, I am aiming to avoid this because what is a photograph with no emotion.
The ways the teenagers will be dealing with their depression in my project is smoking, drugs, and alcohol.

Below are example photos of what I do not want to achieve...

Why blogs are better as workbooks...

I am finding using a blog as my workbook instead of a word document, or visual diary as it keeps all of your work together on one page and you can update previous posts if you need to change them. I like that you can link the title of each blog to the photographer's website. It was a bit hard to get used to as I have never used a blog before but I am getting the hang of it and am liking it more and more.

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Project Idea

For my project I would like to photograph teenagers out partying, getting dressed up, under the influence. This is what alot of teenagers do today, it is a normal thing, so it is a modern issue.
For each photograph i will take a few similar photographs then put them all in one document but overlapping eachother as I find images like this are much more interesting to look at, there is two or three photos in one and it suits my theme well. Other than partying etc. I could focus on teenage depression.

A photographer called Mark The Cobra takes images similar to what I want to do