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Rethinking your projects in a rapidly changing world.

Presentation by FMP Leader Wendy McMurdo Wednesday March 25th.

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Wendy was very helpful with resources and recommendations that may help with our COVID-19 disrupted, ever evolving projects.  

Here are the ones I found most useful to my person:


Clare Gallagher - The Second Shift.  Shoots around the home.  Anonymity is important to her so here children are slightly off camera or masked.  Focusing on the untold story of mothers coming home from work, working then in their own homes.

Fig. 1: Gallagher.

Sian Davey- began shooting her daughter, Alice, who was born with Down Syndrome.  She uses available light.  Great example of shooting in confined and limited spaces.  She represents Alice like any child, with needs the same, and family dynamics as similar and varied as any other family.

Fig. 2: Davey.

Hayley Morris Caffiero- self portraiture.  Although she does shoot in public (like with her project Weight Watchers) her self portraitures could be transferred to home locations.


Trish Morrissey is another example of shooting at home- like this image where she allowed her child to paint on her face:

Fig. 3: Morrissey.

Sian Bonnell- performative photography using still life items, often items you might find around the house. 

Fig. 4: Bonnell.

Guy Ben-ner- I am familiar with already (see previous post). Utilizing home in performative art usually featuring his own children.  

Gem Toes Crichton who has both the experience of previously being stuck in her home as her kidney was removed during part of her Falmouth MA and then now as she is in a residency during this COVID-19.  She has a developed a great way to keep people connected in making cyanotype prints and sending them back to her.  


The key ideas of this broadcast was the recommendation of taking the central themes of my project and relocating them into some other objects or a different way to go about it.  Time to think out of the 'box' (sorry for the pun Bonnell).  





Figure 1: Clare GALLAGHER. The Second Shift. [online] Available at: https://www.claregallagher.co.uk/about [accessed March 25 2020].

Figure 2: Sian DAVEY. Looking for Alice. [online] Available at: http://www.siandavey.com/humannature [accessed 25 March 2020].

Figure 3: Trish MORRISSEY. The Failed Realist. [online] Available at: https://www.trishmorrissey.com/works_pages/work-tfr/workpg-04.html [accessed 25 March 2020].

Figure 4: Sian BONNELL. Box. [online] Available at: https://www.sianbonnell.com/box [accessed 25 March 2020].