I recently earned a masters degree in Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales in Cardiff. My project revolved around research into the history of emotional trauma as well as the recovery process, and involved working with addiction recovery communities as well as adapting archival portraits of 19th-century Parisian hysteria patients.
The finished body of work combines alcohol-soaked portraits of members of Cardiff recovery groups with images of hysteria patients printed as cyanotypes on gold leaf, as well as an overlaid neurology rendering. With its varied materials, textures and inks, the visibility of individual elements in the piece shift and shimmer depending on the viewing angle and lighting sources when seen in person.
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