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My last major photography project, “Envisioning Normality” was a year-long ethnographic and collaborative photography project looking at how youth with serious illnesses and disabilities try to maintain a sense of normality in their lives. This project was part of my final dissertation during my Masters of Arts in Visual Anthropology (MAVA) at the University of Manchester.
Click link to download a pdf: Envisioning Normality Dissertation
This project culminated in the Envisioning Normality Series which was shown as part of various exhibitions and festivals in the UK, Fall 2007, including Photomonth 07.
Currently, I’m re-visiting Envisioning Normality and I want to take this work to another level…to explore and promote greater understanding among children with serious illnesses and disabilities and how their world views and lives can help us all to expand our definition of “normality.” I’m revisiting my approach as a visual anthropologist and a photographer – working harder to push my images towards a deeper visual intelligence. I feel strongly that the combined processes of visual anthropology/ethnography/visual criticism adds to the richness of my conceptual photography projects.
November 12, 2010 at 10:13 pm
[...] that parallels that work since. Nothing that has had the scope or been the labor of love that Envisioning Normality was. What have I become!? Who have I become!? If I am not creating another work of visual [...]