personal projects
// anti-bullying portrait project
This audio extract explaining the project was taken from an interview with myself and one of the volunteers, Paul on Mike Sweeneys BBC Radio Manchester Breakfast show.
This is a subject close to my heart so to hear this statistic is worrying. I know from personal experience that if bullying is not addressed at a young age it can have a serious long lasting impact. Using my photography I wanted to highlight this issue by asking 4 volunteers who have experienced bullying when they were younger to sit with me for a portrait session. The 5th portrait was a self portrait..
// Ditch the Label’s, annual bullying survey 2018
“Within the past year, approximately 1.5 million young people in the United Kingdom experienced bullying, with half of them never telling anybody through fear, embarrassment or a lack of faith in support systems”
This is a subject close to my heart so to hear this statistic is worrying. I know from personal experience that if bullying is not addressed at a young age it can have a serious long lasting impact. Using my photography I wanted to highlight this issue by asking 4 volunteers who have experienced bullying when they were younger to sit with me for a portrait session. The 5th portrait was a self portrait.
