‘Living in the life of someone with a mental health illness’
What is the importance of location within portraiture?
Introduction-
Having experienced mental health issues myself, this is a topic close to my heart and something which I feel very passionately about. When I was first diagnosed with depression, it was like my whole world fell apart; the realisation that there was something wrong with you. And in that moment in time you feel completely helpless, not knowing how you are going to get through yet another day. Also finding out the medication that you have been taking no longer works and you are going to have to try something else, the countless appointments that you have to attend in order to get yourself back to normal; but really what is normal. How do you escape from something that is within you, that is you? Within this essay I am going to be looking at the importance of safe spaces for people suffering with a mental health illness and how this ‘location’ can be important within portraiture.
Chapter 1-
Chapter 2-
- What environmental portraiture is?
- Importance of location within portraiture?
- Benefits of location/outdoors to individuals with mental health illness?
Chapter 2-
- Talk about results from the survey
- (Although on a small scale I can already understand that….)
- (From this I have been able to determine that…)
Conclusion-
What affect does location have on portraits taken of individuals suffering with a mental health illness?
Does location change the outcome of a portrait taken of someone with a mental health illness?
*Are safe spaces beneficial to someone with a mental health illness within documentation portrait photography
