From one of the diary texts i decided to look into to documenting scars. It was mentioned that they remain a reminder of what they have been through and what has been done. When serching i found that ALOT of links came back with forensic style photography and talking about police forensics, however i would much rather look into the art side of it, i discovered the work of susan cunningham.
http://www.inliquid.com/artist/cunningham_susan/cunningham.php
Her photos are black and white shot using anantique 4 x 5 camera and used Polaroid negatives to carry on with the theme of it being unperfect. She entitled the study revisions and just asked around for people who wanted there scars photographed. she states that it was easier thenshe thoght , people wanted to share there scars and there stories behind them. she states 'Revisions: Our scars are the proof that we are human and like it or not we always have to adapt and revise ourselves.' Here are a few examples of her work:
While she does focus on scars, i dont really like these photos overly. I think in black and white they should be more contrasted and also i think that they should be closer of the scars rather then such zoomed out, it makes it harder to distinquish the scars. I do like the way that the titles for these images are how the scars occured. which makes these image seem to have more of a story behind of just documenting them.
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