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I know this one is a little bit obvious for this exhibtion but as you will see in my comment below I needed to do it as part of my personal recovery...
I have been so touched by the comments I have received from flickr people over the last couple of days.
My hope was that by telling my story it would help others to understand the illness a little or for those who are suffering/have suffered to not feel so alone.
From what I have heard from you it's working!
I am hoping to have some kind of online space for comments about the exhibition. When I've got something sorted I will let you know. Please do contact me if you'd be willing to let me add any of your comments, responses and thoughts to an exhibition logbook type thing - whether that's online or in print.
Many thanks to you all...
Experiments for an exhibition about a journey to recovery from anorexia.
I am working on 6 images of "illness" and 6 images of "recovery".
This exhibition is a big challenge for me but it is something I really want to do. So, I guess the first step is to post a few of my "works in progress" on flickr.
The exibition will be on show from 6th February in Brindley Place in Birmingham. Details to follow...
I took these all with my phone or the Fuji FinePix yesterday in an exercise I call, "Familiarization with the Body." I know that looking at yourself often and very closely doesn't always work this way for everyone, but for me it's always brought me peace with my body.
The more I look at my vessel and the closer I look, the less I see parts of it as flaws. The idea that parts of our human bodies need "fixing" or changing hasn't ever sat well with me. When I was much bigger than I am now and when I was much smaller; it's always been my body. The one I was born into and the one that will stay with me in some iteration until my consciousness is no longer here. I love working out, I love pushing myself to see just what it can do. I love changing it. The size, the shape, my hair cut or color, trying new ways to dress and adorn it... doing my very best to acknowledge it, honor it, and celebrate it at every age, size, shape, or ability level. It is mine and it is the one thing I will always take with me no matter what. From the beginning, until the end.
Coming to terms with being trapped within a human shape and finding reasons to celebrate that vessel has been the one constant piece of work in my life. Watching this body age, wrinkle, pucker, and change is (as always) the greatest gift.
Met this great couple on Whyte ave today who were spreading a very positive message about body image.
This photograph is a following to my previous upload. They are part of the same series 'Does it seem like I am looking for an answer' - A series I made for my current university module 'Documents and Fictions'.
In relation to ‘Documents and Fictions’ this body of work falls into ‘the in-between’. The portraits have been set up but the stories behind the photographs are based on truth, reality and research, even a viewers own opinion and anecdotes they can relate to these photographs, prove, to bring some fact, thus documenting the truth of how women feel and think when dealing with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. The body of work has been named ‘Does it seem like I am looking for an answer’ this is to enhance and provoke the feeling of the subjects being lost, confused and helpless – thought to be common symptoms of many mental health disorders.
(If you want to find out further information about the body of work, check out the photograph before this one and keep coming back for the rest of the series to be uploaded. Each photograph will have further information. OR visit my website where further information and the whole body of work is together - www.kacieball.co.uk )
I think everybody should try to be comfortable in their own skin. The reality is that it's hard, very hard, whether you're big, small, wide, or tall. Socially, my body type would be identified has "skinny," but I still struggle with body image from time to time. I have cellulite and stretch marks. My stomach has rolls when I sit. I gained 15 pounds in a month recently. My size makes me biased because I've never experienced being anything more than "skinny." But your body type doesn't define you (unless you want it to, of course). As long as you're taking care of yourself, you are who you are. You were born into the body you have, so you might as well enjoy it while you have it. Every curve or lack of curves every roll, every jiggle, every indention, every bone that pokes out. You get what I'm saying.
I used to not enjoy taking portraits of other people, but now I do. I love it, actually. My goal when it comes to photographing others is to capture the beauty someone may not see, and to make people feel beautiful/handsome/whatever adjective you'd like to identify with!
Photo Session. 2013
Pandemic Self Care. Processing pics from the boneyard (my “vault” that stores pics I have taken, but never processed and/or posted). Stay safe everyone.
Polly smokes illicitly in her bathroom. Residents at the Renfrew Center for eating disorders are only permitted to smoke during designated breaks on the smoke porch.
If there is a voting block Donald Trump can count on for his reelection bid of 2020, it is the Born Again Christians such as the man with the bold letters "Jesus Saves" arm tattoos in this photograph.
No matter how questionable Trump's truthfulness or most basic morality are, white fundamentalist Christians will rally blindly behind their man in the White House. They will vote for him "rain or shine". They constitute about 12 percent of the US population.
Photograph published in News Junkie Post on December 28, 2019 to illustrate my article " Global Warming, Overpopulation and Social Inequality: Three Legs of Climate Crisis Monster"
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Also published in The Indicter to illustrate the same article.
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Get thee to a plastic surgeon, you tragic post-pregnancy ladies, you!
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Fitness and Lifestyle photo session with Victoria Garrick on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at the Tongva Park in Santa Monica, CA.
Photo by Matt Pendleton for Matt Pendleton Photography
It's strange to know your body has changed and not to be able to tell. People tell me I'm thinner. People tell me I've lost my curves. I feel like I'm the same person I've always been. But it's started to dawn on me that my Ass-Pants, the ones that were skin-tight and fabulous, make me look like a gangsta rapper.
I had to steal these pants from my mom She's four inches shorter than me. For months, they've been the only pair that aren't falling off of me (in fact, they're Too tight for my taste). Yesterday I finally gave in and went clothes shopping.
The pants I bought are a size I haven't worn since I was 12 years old. And they're literally less than half the size of my favourite pants from two summers ago. I'm sure there's a brand discrepancy, and maybe sizes have grown, but even with all of that, it's a little bizarre.
I don't see myself as any different. But I've notice people refer to me as a tiny person rather than a curvy person. It's like I've lost a little piece of my identity.
- did someone 'share' this on tumblr or something? im just wondering why it has so many more views in comparision to my other pictures on here! If you would message me how you came across this photo I'd actually appreciate that alot! -
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Today was lazy! I woke up, did hw/ napped /ate /watched tv /went on the computer, until 6 I went to target with my friend Heidi. I got this sports bra, a tshirt, and Valentine cards. Every year my parents bought my supplies to make my own instead, and so I feel weird having this cheap little paper cards with dumb cartoons and sayings on them now. Like I'm cheating.
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But anyway I took this picture to focus on something else: FLAWS. Everyone has flaws as well as things they love about their body and personality! But it's only the personality we pick, and not our bodies. And I truley, actually, for real belive that everyone's _BODY_ is beatiful if they take care of it; hygiene, eat healthy, excersise, watch their face, etc. I think if you do that that, your beautiful. If everyone had thin legs, big boobs, was tall, long eye lashes and a small nose, ears that didnt poof out and teeth with no gaps, wouldnt we all be boring? People say "your gap makes you YOU" or whatever, but I wish people just knew that and didn't think of it in a negative way at all! I wish we didn't have to compare ourselves to eachother so much. I have, and I still do. One of my resolutions was to compare myself less, and I've really stuck with that so far. So I'm trying not to think of my "flaws" as flaws.
For example, this picture. I hate wearing sports bras because I have... very little to fill it? To phrase it like that. And I've always hated that! Other girls show off their cleavage, and the guys stare at it, girls brag about going up a size, they wear tight shirts, etc. I've always been self concious of it. But this picture shows I'm trying to change my outlook on that, there's nothing I can do about it, and if anything, it means I know that a guy will like my for my _personality_. Even celebrities like Kate Hudson share the same "flaw" as myself.
What's your "flaw"? What's something you love?
I love my stomach. I like my height, I'm 5' 7". I like how i see further into people, like I can pick up their feelings/thoughts easier. I feel intune with people. I like that I have found people I can tottaly be myself around- laughing til I pee, being so open; this shows I really don't have to change anything about myself.
An unusual "flaw" i love on other people is a gap in their front teeth. I find it adorable! If I had one, I would tottaly embrace that.
check out www.seventeen.com/health/tips/body-peace-pledge or many other websites if you feel self concious and have trouble getting over it.
Wow that was REALLY long. You don't have to read it all obviously but I'm intrested in knowing if you do.
"The body may be the home of the soul and the pathway of the spirit, but it is also the perversity, the stubborn resistance, the malign contagion of the material world. Having a body, being in the body, is like being roped to a sick cat."
margaret atwood
Shot for my advanced portraiture class. We were assigned to represent issues regarding body image, beauty, body modification, etc. Part of a 2 part series.
It's been a while since I've taken any photos at all, but a melancholy music playlist and a lazy Sunday afternoon light from the window asked me to shoot.
A much younger woman was standing behind the older man. She was wearing black shorts. One of her eyes can be seen at the top of the frame.