Photographer Research Katie Crawford

Katie Crawford

Katie Crawford is someone who battles with anxiety and wanted to depict the constant presence and emotions people feel when suffering with anxiety. As she herself suffers, she done this through self portrait. The aim was to express this disorder not just through the physical pains which people feel but also the emotional aspect that not everyone notices unless you are a sufferer. The use of the colour black is strongly used, both with the background and the objects used. For example there is an image of her in a bath and what appears to be a black cloth- this can symbolise the struggle people go through.

In this image, the editing is really important (which is the same as most her work). Here holds a connotation of feeling trapped and running out of time. Not only the egg time and the clock are present in here to represent anxiety- the smashed glass from the clock represents how anxiety can make you feel incomplete- smashed in thousands of peaces and left feeling useless. 

This composite image portrays anxiety showing an emotion of feeling lost and alone. Also the nudity in the image is important as it shows she is being stripped down to nothing. I really like how the actions progress, the furthest image is the faintest- they may portray how all her previous actions are hard to notice/ it doesn't matter because they are faint.

In this image it shows 3 different stages anxious people experience- perhaps in different days or all in the same day. The first stage, she appears to be weighing the water- weighing up her options. In all the images she is wearing a white gown- no detail, I like this aspect because it shows how lost she seems to be. The middle stage is of her balancing these waters- she appears to be balancing her options now. There is an extra bottle compared with the first stage which suggest she struggles with when she can actually cope (with two) something adds another weight on her. Then as we see in image 3, she cannot cope with it as she is on the floor soaking wet. 

In this image she appears to have cling film wrapped around her. As if she is being suffocated mentally. This image is really powerful and mind provoking because it makes you wonder, everyone you see everyday, someone may be feeling like this, but you may never know.