Art that deals with Mental Health Issues
Mindful: Exploring Mental Health through Art is an exhibition catalogue with great essays as well as a wide variety of works to explore. You might also want to look further into the work of artists from this catalogue whose work you find inspirational. (Let me know who). You can find out more about the intentions behind the exhibition here.
tThe Perspective Project was
The Deepest Blue commissioned artists to explore the mental illness through the metaphor of water.
Stigma: Dismantled, Revealed was shown at the Dax Centre, which engages the community in mental helath issues through art.
For Anabel
Rather than focusing on a specific 'picture' in your research and experimentation, try researching how other photographers create tension and anxiety in their work. Look at:
Look at these film noir images and write about the 3 images you think are most atmospheric
https://filmnoirfoundation.tumblr.com/post/99262579854/happy-birthday-to-one-of-the-kings-of-noir
- Lighting - especially film noirwww.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/what-is-film-noir/ lighting which is all about textures because colour film hadn't been invented yet.
- Framing: camera angle and perspective as well as different types of composition
- Contrast and repetition - of colours, shapes, lines etc. incl. silhouettes
- Focus and depth of field (how much of the image is actually in focus) - experiment with what happens when you change shutter speeds and apatures (one or the other at a time or you'll get confused!)
- how to create a menacing atmosphere without actually showing the thing that's scaring you
Look at these film noir images and write about the 3 images you think are most atmospheric
https://filmnoirfoundation.tumblr.com/post/99262579854/happy-birthday-to-one-of-the-kings-of-noir