November 2, 2022

(fig.1) untitled by Paris Naik-Neenan In figure one, the effect I intended for worked perfectly, which was to blow out the highlights of details from the model while keeping the shadows and highlights elements of the background. To create an ethereal impression of a female figure, I wanted the viewer to focus o

October 12, 2022

For the zine layout, I decided to separate my mother’s short story into multiple sections to spread out over six pages and then have an image that would correspond with the emotional tone of the writing and motif of that particular section. Initially, I knew what images worked best for three zine sections. St

September 28, 2022

Inspired by Mona Hatoum’s moving image, I decided to create my moving image using video clips my father had captured when I was a child, right before my mother was sectioned intercut with my house when my mother and father were viewing the house as potential buyers. The film inspired my editing style, “I’

September 14, 2022

For this photoshoot, I wanted to improve the concept from the previous photoshoot by correcting the lighting technique and using more dynamic poses to emote the right emotions to the viewer from my mother’s perspective. (fig.0.5) Selected images between Paris Naik-Neenan and Sandie Neenan We selected several

August 31, 2022

Inspired by Gareth McConnel’s more recent work from his series, Dream Meadow, he captures nude photographs and utilises studio lights to completely bleach his models with light to create these ethereal beings of pure light. In my studio shoot, I did deviate from capturing nude images like McConnell as I did n

August 17, 2022

In my first photoshoot for this project, I visited Gylly Beach in Falmouth to capture some images inspired by Gareth McConnell and the section in my mother’s short story. She describes her place of hope and sanity from what she describes as hell. Using the beach as my setting, I decided to capture some images