The first task for this brief was to list 10 things that felt like labour to us; And then decide on one idea to create a photo sequence. While I was thinking of things that felt labouring to me, I immediately thought of the times when I wasn’t doing well mentally, which made literally any basic task feel like labour. So in this photo sequence, I used my sister as a model to portray how I felt years ago.
The series of photos of her brushing her teeth was to portray how self care and hygiene felt labouring to me. I remember on my days off school, I didn’t really treat my body well. My photos were shot with a low ISO to get a dark moody feeling to them, along with a black and white filter added on later in the editing process. Body language was incorporated into this work in order to further depict the “i don’t want to do this” feeling. I think the eyes looking down, slouched posture, messy hair, and the lack of grip on the toothbrush really worked together to give off the mood that I wanted to bring out.Â