Within one of my Tuesday morning documentary group sessions, when explaining my work to Gavvin I was presented with Corinne Day's book titled 'Diary'. Page after page I was transfixed with how graphic and in your face each photograph was. Scenes showing couples injecting one another, people crying etc... I was literally shocked at how such graphic events could be supported by such a simple use of text. For example 'Tara crying at home..." We receive no information why she's crying, we can only make assumptions which instantly is making you engage with each and every photograph. You know it is an important part of that persons life, whether this is good or bad.
I want my photographs to have a similar approach to Corinne Day's. I don't want to glamorise the use of narcotics on a night out, however since it is such a large part of our youths I believe I would be failing myself if I did not include it within this unit of work.
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