Jade Birchnall

Jade Birchnall is a formal degree student of Burton college and she came in to speak to the Nd students and the degree students about her work.

she showed us a few of the projects she had been working on since she graduated.
Her first one was about her grandmother and what I found very intersting is that when she was showing us photos of her she explained how he had recently been diognosed with alzheimers which gave a whole new way of viewing the images. The photographs where all took on film camera and she was experimenting with light so some where better than others and some she loved and managed to produce them by acciedent. There were a few images of the elderly people that where sharing the same care home as her grandma and she told us little facts about the people.
a photo of an old women is so much more interstresting if you know abit about the women.

Another project she showed us contained images of various strippers in different poses in a strip club. she explained she felt really awkward and uncomfortable and she gained the attitude of 'you only live once' and shot away at the half naked women. she took some unflattering images of the girls because she knew they wouldnt see them and it humoured her in a way.
i remembered a quote 'they won't see them so what the hell, im going to make you look ugly.' I found it interesting because after looking at the images it was clear these girls loved themselves and thought they where very attractive and Jade captured a side of them to show that the girls are just like any other girl on the planet, just with a bit more make up and a little less clothing..

she managed to get permition to photograph priests and nuns. The images where quite slarteling. Its not every day you see an image of a nuns smiling.

Its like Jade photographed the impossible, she photographed photograped people and places we dont regualrly see as the viewing public.However not to say we dont want to view them.

It kinda reminds me of Merry Alerns series 'shopping' and 'dirty windows'.
an insite into people we dont regulary meet and places we dont regualry see.