AP PHOTOGRAPHY
My concentration this year was more focused on metal illnesses and self identity. I took a lot of self portraits this past year dealing with insecurities and anxiety. There has been a stigma in the media portraying mental illnesses as a sign of weakness by showing/expressing your emotions. My goal for the photos were to document my thoughts and feeling as being a senior and trying to have your life figured out before graduating. A lot of feelings are shown in my work seeing as this year was very stressful and hard. Oftentimes it felt like everything was going so fast and that I had to make a decision on what I wanted to do with my life right now. It also didn't help that everything had a clicking time clock on it with deadlines to when I had to figure my life out. My photos sometimes have a theme to them but most of the time I just feel like doing what I want in the moment with to rhyme or reason.