The person is the main focus of this picture but as this is a object project I can not have a person in the picture. Instead I could focus on the objects around them and how they have clumsily affected them. At first there will not be clear evidence why the room is trashed but as you look closer there will be hints of evidence such as bottles of drink, packets that have had drugs in them etc.

Im not trying to capture the few hours of fun you have while intoxicated, trying to capture the next day after the person has come to terms with what happened the night before.

 

Trying to depict the bad side of drugs and alcohol so should use dark colours, even some bits could be completely shadowed out like the head above. As we can't use people in the object project I could find a head of a mannequin and if it’s shadowed out you won’t be able to tell its not a real person, or maybe a leg on the floor sticking out of somewhere to make it look like the person has fallen over.

I like the way the camera has shaken so that the edge of the girl is blurred and jagged because that’s how things look sometimes to people under the influence. Im going to try and do this with my photos, I’ll have to ask for help from the tutors as I am not sure how to create this look with large format cameras.

I found this poster and thought maybe I could have a sign in the background on the ‘wall’ saying something like this.  A kind of ironic statement to what im trying to say. The sign represents the attitude of the person, and the persons friends, that I have created that have caused problems due to alcohol. Where it’s funny, applauded and encouraged to be a complete messed and to drink the most. To go out get drunk, sleep with people and not care about your reputation, which is good but at the same time a little sad because you are constantly at a state where you are not thinking properly. It's almost a little sad that you have to get to that state. Also looking behind the psychology of people who depend on alcohol, sometimes get like that because you don’t want to be sad, look towards alcohol/drugs to stop the deeper sadness and loneliness.