Book

I have decided to finalise my coursework within a book of which will feature two new series' of photographs that represent this body of work as well as descriptions and a bibliography. For the book I focused on two different aspects of my coursework, both the Christening and the care home of which I visited in order to show both the young and eldery and how they come together to provide a community and are big parts of a community as a whole, showing the start and end of the life cycle and how you age both physically and mentally between these two stages.

Changing faces

Getting with it

Anna

The next few photographs are of a women called Anna, of whom took me under her wing for the few hours a day I was at the rest home. She told me of her life stories and how her grandchildren used to run along table-top mountain and how her life progressed throughout the time she lived in Kenya. She showed me most of her family photos and I felt joy that she was sharing this with me as she was reading out each of the family members name's as well as a small back story that came along with each one.
        I had a tour of her room as she pin-pointed everything within it and told me of how she came to own the items as well as what they meant to her, as well as her religious values and the visit of the priest to the home every Sunday. I also had the pleasure of talking to her about her small bugalow in which she lived before transferring to the home as well as meeting her husband in spirit as she talked f him as though he were present within the room.


I suppose I chose to approach Anna as she looked quite timid and friendly as well as colourful when sitting in the corner of the rest home, buried amongst all of the other residents.
However once meeting I found her not to be timid but a real character in which I could have stayed and talked to for days.

Always looking at the floor

Expressing herself through a pen and paper

Rhoda is both deaf and blind and so she communicates through the sense of feel.

I sat with Rhoda for sometime, holding her hand as she scribbled on this piece of paper, of which to the eye cannot be read, but to her husband means a whole world of communication as he sits there day after day with his magnifying glass, convinced that he can understand and read what she has written.