Lucy Courtney

Lucy is a student on Photography 1: Expressing Your Vision
“As the main carer for my husband who has alzheimers, I wanted to create a pictorial narrative of his deterioration without using his image. The slow deterioration is subtle and not noticeable at first, but when comparing the diagnoses date to the final outcome you see the difference, so the blurring effect I’ve used reflects this.
The flower represents his memory, which over time becomes a blurred reality. The colour represents his physical being, its a constant, so stays the same through out. I could have time lapsed the flower from bud to wilt and decay, but that means I would have had to mention death and decay, which I dont want to face at the moment.
As a disabled person myself from stroke using photography as a way of expressing myself is a great outlet. I hope you find my personal project interesting as it also highlights what a debilitating condition alzheimers is.”

View Lucy’s blog here.
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