ON GOING WORK
In the UK, consistently since the fifties, three quarters of suicides have been male.
As a mother of boys I want to investigate boy culture and its impact on male mental health.
The project intends to consider wether the archetypes that we feed boys...the unwavering, the silent, the strong, the superhero...are as stifling as the princess. Do these representations contribute to the mental health crisis that men face. What does it mean to be a man and how does it feel to grow up boy?
This is an ongoing, evolving project that intends to collate images of boyhood. The traditions, rituals, compulsions and ideology. The rich landscape that is boy culture.
It will be shot predominately on an iPhone mixed with some medium format.
I intend to add a section to this site soon that will act as a scrapbook of my adventure into boyhood. It will include my progress and the projects hopeful unfolding. :)