Third year begins, and with it a new project is born.

The start of my third and final year at The Arts University College at Bournemouth (mouthful I know) has begun and with it has come a lot of work! But, even with the mountains of pressure, fear and self doubt I am feeling good about my final year and have started my project much earlier than normal and with a lot more determination and pleasure! Although I am aiming for a degree, at the beginning of last year I feel I forgot the passion I have for photography and only aimed to please my tutors, forgetting what I like to photograph. But with my last few projects that passion came back and now I am determined to do a project that is personal and is for me.

So with this is in mind I came up with my current project. My strongest work lies within portraiture and thus I decided to do a project dealing with the constructed image and self portraiture. I wanted to focus on self portraiture because within the project I wanted to deal with the personal issues that I have about myself and especially my body. I have always lacked self confidence, feeling particularly (like most women) critical of my body, wanting to loose more weight, have better skin, nicer bum... I could go on and on. I also deal with the pressure of constantly feeling overshadowed by an older brother and sister (youngest child syndrome I know) so with all these issues in mind this project was born... Have a look at the images and let me know what you think, as opinions help a project grow and develop.

Cheers bloggers!