'Take a seat. Take a breath' stood out to me more than other projects I saw on the one projects website, because, the narrative of the image and the way most people would see the image would be the photo symbolising a busy world and a seat where all the fears and judgement leave. However, I see the image as the chair being noticeably out of place from the scenery around, much like how mental health suffers would feel different from everyone else within society, and much like the chair in the photo out of place.
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The next photo that stood out to me was unknowingly by the same artist. The photo stood out to me as it attempted to portray the same emotions felt when going through a panic attack, when not many of the other images attempted to portray similar emotions to the condition they were capturing. I think the image does a very good job at giving the audience a panicked feeling, due to the blur of the photos lights causing unsettlement in the audience of the photo. I also think the photograph shows the fast pace of thoughts that some people may feel.
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I took inspiration from one of Stephanie Moshammers photos from her 'I can be her' series. The project focuses on mens ideas around women, and Moshammer photographed photos from the point of view of her stalker. I really liked how she edited the photo on the left, as it takes away the sexualisation of woman as the woman in the photo is edited to be unrecognisable. I also wanted the people in my project to be unrecognisable to reflect that beauty standards in the media are unrealistic, and the people in the images are more than just people you see on social media.
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This photo by Paul Graham for me shows the evolution of symbolism, and how now by a tiny symbol you can tell it represents a man, however previously status were made in great detail which took years to make. Sociologists Goffman and Mead said that people in post modern society can't tell between what is real and what are signs anymore, which is what influenced me to start investigating this project as we don't know life without signs in this day and age, as even in rural areas we can't escape them due to the increasing use of the media.
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Parliament recently passed a law, which allows a person to be put in prison for up to 10 years for vandalising a statue, whereas a person can only be put in prison for 5 years for raping someone. This created a moral panic on social media against parliament and the police who would arrest people for both offences.
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The protests for women safety sparked panics about covid spreading and about violence, which later caused peaceful protests to be banned and people who attend them are punishable by law. The media had little to say about women safety and instead focused on the negatives of the protests and people had to use their own social media platforms to portray the real issue.
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Nigel Farage argued by many convinced many brits to vote for Brexit, his persuasive method was using a photograph of people crossing the Croatia-slovenia boarder and that seeing this would ' keep us focused on the danger of open borders.' even though this would never have been an issue if the UK remained in the EU.
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The mods and rockers were 2 opposing groups of boys in the 1960s who rioted with each other. The media over exaggerated this conflict which created a moral panic of the issue and led to marginalisation of the mods and rockers which caused a self fulfilling prophecy which led to a deviance amplification spiral of the mods and rockers which resulted in more violence.
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The photograph of the football parade shown on the left happened a week before the Sarah Everard case, and the police didn't complain about the spread of covid or violence that was happening, however both things were a worry in the media following the protests relating to Sarah Everard which had a deep meaning behind the peaceful protests.
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The recent stabbing of Levi-ernest Morrison gained little to no coverage on media outlets, which is surprising when only a month before the media was filled with information about Sarah Everard. This could show that the media could be racist and gender biased when choosing what stories to show.
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