Buckingham-Final Concept

My concept was “The Reality of Depression” and how it is darker than most people may think it is. I used bleach to damage the photos and to use that as a metaphor to represent depression. By using different damaging techniques on developed photos, that I took for this series, I think that I illustrated my concept effectively. I hope that people will clearly see my concept through the metaphorical representation of bleach that represents my concept.

 

In photo number one I showed depression in a physical form by having it surround the subject and make it so it shows the idea of depression closing in around him, without the subject noticing at all. This shows how one little time of self harming or even just hating almost everything that surrounds you is a gigantic welcome sign to have depression close in on you and take you over. In photo number two I show the subject after the idea of depression has closed in on him, it is only impacting the outside so what you see is just a neutral face, which is represented by the subject’s face being blurred, showing that they may almost look completely fine, but depression is starting to take root inside of them. In photo number three I show the idea of the hate of oneself when they are depressed, I did this by scratching the picture. In photo number four I used bleach on the subject’s eyes to show that depression has affected the way that he sees the world around him. In photo number five I show how depression has started to take over his life and that you can see is almost physically spreading over him in the picture. In photo number six I show the end result of depression taking over your life from the inside, out. As you can see in the photo the subject’s view of himself and reality has been completely destroy by depression.

Done