One of her first projects 'yesterday is gone' was a series of portraits of her grandmother who was diagnosed with demensia and so some days she knows where she is and others she is not completely sure. The images she has produced for this are very moving and powerful. Below are a couple of the images she took.
Another project she spoke about are 'The little sisters of the poor' which was based with in a care home run by a group of Catholic Nuns, when contacting the home and asking about carrying out a shoot she had to write up a model release before the nuns let her photograph the residence. She was also given a few guidelines to follow for example the nuns asked her not to put the images she takes onto the internet. She wanted her work to focus on the catholic side of the life but she couldnt photograph some of the nuns.
I enjoyed this talk as she was very open about her experiences and how she came up with some of her ideas for photographs. She spoke about how some of the other students on her course have asked her how she managed to photograph the dominatrix and the strippers to which she replied 'if you don't ask you don't get' which is very true, unless your prepared to ask people if its okay for you to photograph them then you will never know.
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