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A New Normal...

Year 12 pupils share their photography projects

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Jessie Tarrant: My theme for this pr oject was 'New Normal', looking at how our lives have changed and how this change may affect the rest or our lives to become the new normal. I started to think about how our view of the world has changed and how our perspective of simple scenarios is now vastly different. I used a simple glass egg when shooting this photo. The glass distorted the image of the person behind it by blurring it and flipping it. I thought that this was a good representation of how unclear everything is now and how 'flipped' and crazy our lives have become. I also went on to experiment with black and white. This added to the dramatic atmosphere and meaning behind the piece.

Jess Lock: I made this ser ies in r esponse to the theme "Uncertain Times". This inspired me to think about the news and how different people receive it at this time. The artist that inspired this series layout was Mathieu Pernot who used a photobooth as a layout as part of his series of work following a gypsy family. I explored the title T he News as it is becoming increasingly used in this day and age to find out the big world events.

Millie White: My second image is also following the same theme of 'shielding'. This time, I wanted to think of something simpler, and a lot less abstract in contrast to my first image. In the past, I had seen images of people punching through walls to 'escape', and so I took the idea of using cling film to create a barrier, supposedly inferring a 'shielded' person from the photographer. I did not photoshop any major changes to my piece, however I did play around with the lighting to make one half of her face darker than the other. I took the phrase 'the grass is always greener on the other side', to inspire my piece and the lighting. The lighting shows the direct correlation of light and dark, emphasising the end of the shielding period being around the corner. As well as this phrase also linking to the girl physically looking through the camera to the other side of the cling film.

Celina Liu: My theme is white, ster ile and clean. I cr eated the images to respond the days during covid. My idea was the girl covered her nose and mouth by her hand wearing a white glove. The white glove symbolises sterile and clean, which respond to the mask that we wear everyday Saffron Grant Down: In this photo in the sense, it is more about a person's mental health not allowing them to speak out to keep everything bottled up, no matter how much they need/want help, they can't. They cannot find the bravery to do so, hence the tape around the mouth and the hand reaching out. Unlike the other photos, I did not photoshop anything extra or out of the image, I enhanced the colours and contrast to give the hand a clearer outline. Theo Marsden: My theme for this piece of work is isolation. It was inspired by the lockdown caused by Covid 19. My main idea for this photo was to show the difference in people’s mental well-being whilst being alone. I did this by having a picture of a few Jessies and Celinas using photoshop where Jessie looks happy contrasting with a photograph of Jessie alone looking unhappy.

Phoebe Shakespeare: In this photo the theme is sudden separation. I have used a hammer and a photo frame to create this as I smashed it, separating from the frame. This photo is abstract and bright which I think has made it a more interesting theme. I made this filter in photoshop by increasing the saturation and the different colours in the photo. I tried to contrast this with

my other picture as it is less bright and very neutral.

Jake Lawson-

Johnston: My theme is zones and isolation. This picture was inspired by Covid 19 and how everyone is meant to stay 2 metres apart and how lots of shops are putting marks on the floor so people know how far they should stand from each over. This image was made completely on photoshop.

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