BIG let down

The Jewellery designer has let me down which is a big pain as it had a fantastic concept behind it...big depression..however over it now and will hopefully be picking up some pieces this week from a designer in Manchester....

Her stuff will be uploaded on here when it is all finalised..do not want to jinx it!!

Representation of diease

Testing different ways to capture the disease process..from soup mould in a tin to chicken carcass'...not for the faint hearted....

project is still based on my nans disability and parkinson's disease..she will be used as part of the jewellery editorial when i go over to cyprus to see her. But I have to make th is project less student-ie...so i am looking at ways to portray disease in a non obvious way.

Testing random jewellery pieces ready for final pieces..

Project update- Had a tutorial with kelly and we discussed how to represent the ageing process along with disease within my jewellery editorial. The jewellery i will be using is based on OCD disorders, therefore i need to convey a sense of being out of control.(Parkinsons disease and ageing is out of our control, we can not escape it)

This is where it all going at the moment...any suggestions would be great as i seem to have got a little stuck with it all and finding it all difficult.

This test here was done last weekend.It all went wrong as i waas supposeed to be testing my nan again but in the Midlands it decided to snow! So all plans went out of the window however the weather/nature is also out of our control so i decided to test with basic jewellery outdoors to keep the testing and ideas flowing! Shot on digital also took some on bronica 120 medium format so they will be posted soon!

Latest Test Shoot

Testing with my nan- looking at her life with parkinson's disease.

TESTING STUDIO LIGHTING OVER CHRISTMAS...

Not very good at lighting just yet but can only keep testing i guess! From my last tutorial we have come up with the idea of looking/analysing my Nan-incorporating her disability within my work..

Due to Parkinson's disease, she has slowly become less able to get and move around. Not sure where this is all going however i will still be collaborating with the jewellery designs previously mentioned in blog. The jewellery is futuristic and medical based/influenced so it all could work together with Parkinson's??!?!!!

Any way, these images were taken just to test jewellery and the body along with studio lighting. Test was nothing major

Random night shoot

As I will be photographing jewellery as part of my major project...i started to experiment with lighting and in particular photographing jewellery.