Essays
This essay explored identity as something shaped by personal experience, social influence, and self-perception. Using photography as a form of self-expression, I experimented with self-portraiture, long exposure, and styled imagery to explore visibility, vulnerability, and the tension between authenticity and performance. Influenced by Francesca Woodman, Paolo Roversi, and Pennie Smith, my work questioned how identity was constructed and perceived.
Exploring the portrayal of women in art, particularly how female figures had been idealised, objectified and sexualised, especially through the male gaze and comic book culture. It drew on feminist art movements and artists who challenged these depictions, questioning the line between empowerment and objectification. The research delved into how changing societal values continued to shape women’s identity and agency within visual culture.
This essay explored Modernism as a radical break from traditional art, driven by social, political, and technological change. Influenced by modernist photographers such as Man Ray and Edward Steichen, and the rapid development of cities like New York, my work examined abstraction, innovation, and the rejection of convention.
This essay looked at Surrealism, as a means of challenging reality through imagination, chance and the unconscious. Influenced by artists like Man Ray, the Dada movement and surreal visual culture in music and album design, I experimented with photographic techniques such as double exposure and colour manipulation.