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Journalling - Reflective Practice

Images ‘of’ drowning and suicide

Imagery associated with drowning

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

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Sombre image; reliant upon the text – which is substantial.
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From a local RNLI campaign – is this a stockphoto?
RNLI Risky Business activity slides
Powerful image and typographically “naive” caption.
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Closer to my intention, but again dependent on the strong caption. Why is he jumping in fully clothed?
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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.

Themes of suicide and its prevention

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With caption…
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Without caption…

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Personal Projects Sophistication (Mastery)

Collaborative Photography – The Morse experience

https://uniofglos.blog/hiddennarratives/2020/02/08/2020-conference-truth-crime-and-true-crime/
This is the fourth annual one-day conference organised by postgraduate research students at the University of Gloucestershire in association with the Being Human Research Centre. It is part of an initiative to improve the research environment, explore the human condition, and build interdisciplinary links. The conference is sponsored by the Being Human Research Priority Area at the University of Gloucestershire.

Abstract:

The Morse TV series has, perhaps unwittingly, created a fictional parallel world in and around Oxford where crime, truth and true crime cross over one another. 

It has been suggested that around 30000 visitors are drawn to the city for Morse alone.  Many come from China and SE Asia where the series has become a cult phenomenon.  In Oxford, an industry has grown to support them (guided tours, memorabilia, websites, maps and guidebooks, guest lectures, and so on).  Many of the tour companies have tapped into a perception among the tourists that Morse’s Oxford is what Britain is like today.  For the last four or five years, this has even led to coachloads visiting the domestic idyll of a small (relatively affluent) housing estate in Kidlington to photograph themselves against the backdrop of suburban gardens and 1960s bungalows.  At least one estate agent has reported difficulty selling property on one small road where Morse investigated both a murder and a suicide! 

This project involves four local novice photographers, supported by a retired Detective Superintendent, researching, visiting, interpreting, and photographing a selection of the original ‘scenes of crime’ from the series.  The learning from working with this team will inform my own practice and major research project.

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Graham Wilson has a PhD from the University of Bristol in Behavioural Science and is a part-time Tutor in Psychology and Counselling at the University of Oxford. He is studying part-time for an MA by Research in Photography at the University of Gloucestershire. His research is exploring the ability of imagery to affect the behaviour of communities.