Portraits and Responses
Portraits and Responses is a documentary series photographing nine people in my life holding their written responses from three questions I presented to them. Each of these questions have their own designated grid to explore and compare each person and their response.
From these questions, I hoped to create an interesting collection of answers to create a narrative and reflection of the sitters thoughts throughout the three typologies while also looking further into each person’s values and priorities. Having more than one question helped this. In one response one person states their philosophy in life is winning the lottery which may seem on the face of things quite shallow yet later on we see their biggest struggle is looking out for their mother. It makes us look at this person differently and, in our mind, we create an alternative narrative to what we initially thought.
What is your biggest Struggle?
keeping my diet on track
with food
keeping an eye on my mum
my workload
aspergers
dad diagnosed with terminal cancer
IT issues
understanding human people
What is your philosophy in life?
happiness
try to be as useful as you can be to everyone around you
enjoy the simple things
to win lottery
carpe diem
don't lie
do the least harm
treat others like you want to be treated yourself
I don't know anything
What makes you happy?
seeing Rebecca and David happy
football
family
doing nothing
my grandchidren
food
doing something well for the good of others
golf
stillness