Proposal

Why I choose to explore light drawings:

In the past I have focused on documentary/portraiture, I have always been interested in disability and mental health issues, but I wanted to step away from portraiture and delve into something more challenging. In a different manner than I am used to by using and exploring the qualities of light drawings.

Initially I photographed in the studio, just capturing light drawings that represent a state of mind. Where I could I tried to get people with disability and mental health issues. To create the light drawing voice themselves anonymously

So in the end I had light drawing that represented a personality.

In the bellow two images, I asked the model to draw how he felt , he first started out by drawing devil horns and the triple six’s, after having some more time he then took another image of angel wings. These two collected images represent the way in which people with disabilities moods change, from one moment of being devilish to being so gentle and angelic like

I feel I can develop this in to a project further, where it allows people to express their inner feeling through the medium of light drawings and not be visually recognised.I have chosen to use lights as when information is received in the nerve ending in the brain there is a little spark. And also there is always light no matter how dark your situation is.

Here are some other images I have produced:

With the above stickman image, I would like to re shoot this and instead have two stick people. From the image I get the idea of loneliness from the image,as you can only see the stickman reaching out to nothing.