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I researched the mod building in porth y felin and discovered that it had been a unit for 'No. 52 Air/Sea Rescue Marine Craft Unit was formed at Holyhead on 28 March 1942 and was based until disbanded in May 1942' and 'No. 1113 Marine Craft Unit RAF which was formed at Holyhead on 1 July 1954 and was based until it was disbanded on 1 April 1986.' 
Therefore, I had the idea of creating fire so it appeared the look of war and the realisation that it survived with hardly any recons


 
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For this image I had asked my model to shoot on location but the images didn't come out to well, so we reshot her in the studio and then i used Photoshop CS6 to recreate her postions and also expressed the idea of a mental breakdown and confusion of what to do with their live considering they were always controlled.

 
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I was inspired by 'The Rubber Room' by Miss Aniela to experiment with my model flicking her hair as a pose so create the expression on mentality and the realisation of insanity. 
I chose to use the doorway of the porth y felin because it looks old and the fact the doorway is covering in bricks and overgrown plants shows it's been there for years and is now  uncared for.

 
 
 
This image has been edited on Photoshop. I used my initial photo shoot of the mental patient to create a composite image of a girl having a mental breakdown. Each figure was shot separately and represents the terror felt by patients. The appalling use of electric shock therapy and torture must have been horrific for the patients. I wanted the image below to represent the frustration felt by the patients at these homes.
 
 
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The photograph I have chosen to write about is called ‘Her Possession’, which has been produced by Miss Aniela in 2009. The image comes from the movement of surrealism I think this because the image is not realistic and therefore, appears to be surreal. The image portrays the idea of ‘paranormal’ and distress.

The photograph has been shot in an abandoned mental hospital, so the walls in the background are dirty and peeling causing the room to look damp and uncared for. The floor is also full of rubble which has possibly fallen from the ceiling above leaving the viewer to assume the room is unstable. The door is wide open showing another doorway leading into a similar plain room, suspected to be bare like the one in the picture. In the foreground is the figure of a woman in a baby’s cot with a teddy bear, which is the focal point.  The composition is simple because the main focus is central to the image. The bottom half of the image is straightforward, the floor is dark making the cot seem static. These elements combined make the image appear unsettled.


The piece is photographed using a canon, it appears that Aniela has used a slow shutter speed to capture the flicking of the hair and afterwards, used Photoshop to composite in the extra pair of hands on the side of the cot to make it come across as more sinister. The light appears to be coming from the left hand side at the far of the room behind the figure, you can tell because the model’s face is partially lit and the back corner of the room is highlighted, so the image looks more dramatic. The lighting has made the image high contrast with dark tones contrasted with stark highlights.

I think this represents the torture and insanity of how mental patients were treated during the Victorian era, the cot reflects how they were vulnerable like children, and compared to the baron room it seems intimidating. ‘Her Possession’ signifies that the patients felt trapped and lonely within the four walls of the blank room.



I choose to write about this photograph because it inspired me to focus on the mental patients and their thoughts and feelings; the image conjures up the emotions of disturbance because the figure appears traumatised. I am inspired by this work because it’s very expressive and everybody can have different opinions of what it implies, therefore, I have been inspired to experiment by situating my model flicking her hair into another photograph I have taken of Denbigh Mental Asylum, I want to capture the movement and drama in the figure. I will do this by getting my model to move around dramatically whilst I shoot in low light using continuous shutter speed.


 
 
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In the village of Shropshire is it believed that within the Wem Town Hall which was erected in 1905. 
On the 19th of November the interior of the building was completely destroyed by a fire as the local residents gathered to watch the firefighters attempting to tackle the blaze and as a result of the fire no one was injured.
The red brick structure with a Victorian facade was rebuilt through the lottery funding to serve as a community arts centre, for the rebuilding of the town hall the facade was retained but the rest had to be replaced and a plaque was placed  on the building commemorating the fire.

Amateur photographer Tony O'Rahilly took a black and white photograph of the blaze from across the road with a 200mm lens as he was stopped by the police from approaching any closer.  After the image was developed a young girls figure appeared in the doorway of the burning building. 
O'Rahilly sent the photograph for analysis to the ASSAP, which determined that a burning piece of wood lay on the railing where the image appears, rendering the image a simulacrum. The photograph was afterwards forwarded to the former Royal Photographic Society president, Dr Vernon Harrison who then concluded that the image did appear to be genuine.  In 2010, five years after the death of the photographer, a 77 year old local resident claimed to solve the mystery, proving that a similarity between the girl in the photograph and the image of a girl printed on a postcard that appeared in the local paper 'Shropshire Star'.  The postcard was taken in 1922 and shows the young girl who resembles the so-called 'Wem Ghost'. Jane Churn was a 14 year old girl, who in 1677 dropped a candle which started a huge fire that destroyed most of the wooden buildings in town, this caused a disaster for Wem far greater than the destruction of the town seen during the War of the Roses, the intense heat partly melted the church bells which had to be recast. Churn was blamed and named the 'Wem Ghost' for reappearance of the ghost.