Journalling – Reflective Practice – Page 7 – Critical Research Journal

Images ‘of’ drowning and suicide

Imagery associated with drowning

Imagery associated with drowning is commonplace. The following are all mainly from the RNLI.

Sombre image; reliant upon the text – which is substantial.

From a local RNLI campaign – is this a stockphoto?

Powerful image and typographically “naive” caption.

Closer to my intention, but again dependent on the strong caption. Why is he jumping in fully clothed?

Image result for "respect the water" — The drowning victim; the caption adds to the image, which is possibly powerful alone – but taps into the negative.

The RTW campaign on video was shown in cinemas prior to films. It was rated 15 because of the disturbing imagery.

A brief reflection… My trip to Nigeria was arranged months ago, and I’d planned to have a day in front of the training and a day afterwards. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen. The day out was taken up with a riot on the outbound Lufthansa flight. The return was initially extended to allow for a repeat workshop for the local Government, which then didn’t happen and my flight was brought forward by three days!

I did get to ride through the slum areas in the daylight; albeit it in torrential rain. It wasn’t the kind of place that you would probably want to venture by night, but I think I would have been a little more comfortable by day. While my anxiety levels were not particularly high, they weren’t helped knowing that I was carrying a fair bit of cash as the organisers paid my fee in used £20 notes! That said, for future reference, I would probably be happier to have a “fixer” with me to help with language etc.

Potentially to be expanded….

Imagery associated with drowning

Themes of suicide and its prevention