My starting point for this assignment was to create an image that looked at my memories of my mother following her recent death. In developing this idea I identified three periods that I could photograph, my memories of my mother when I was a child, when I was an adult and when she was in a care home which, as her Alzheimer’s progressed, resulted in our roles changing, she being helpless and infant like and me in effect parenting her when I visited. I initially thought of photographing objects that related to each period but I realised that although they … Continue reading Assignment 5 – Making it up – process

My initial idea for this assignment was to explore my memories of my mother following her death. After a lot of toing and froing, including developing a completely different narrative, I returned to the my original idea. My final image is different from my initial idea in that it looks at my mother’s death from my father’s perspective rather than mine and the narrative it is trying to explore is the notion of loss rather than memory. Continue reading Assignment 5 – Making it up – Image