02/02/2022
Online external talk with Emily Ryalls regarding her recent work to non exploitive photography. Ryalls states that "Photography introduces connections to peoples lives and stories'. Her work mainly focuses upon the elements of documentary portrayed through the act of performance photography.
Photograph taken from Unveil'd.online
Go to camera: Bonica 645 up from 35mil lens.
Observing Ryalls talk I took note that her recent project focuses around women in health care particularly focused around a personal connection to the topic with her connection to exploring self experience and emotions through the intersection between the genres of documentary and performance.
The work 'Miss Rouse' was explained to portray the experience the photographer herself had within the hospital environments alongside her mothers emotions showing topics of isolation, gender disparity, chronic illness' and emotions of frustration. This topic enabled Ryalls to take upon a storytelling approach by visualising and revisiting words that have stuck almost as a form of trauma from the medical process. She explains how using materials from these environment's sparks inspiration for the work she created. The connotations of being a woman are shown through landscapes, wildness, bleakness and cold mixed with connections of literature.
Ryalls talks about the dog within the image connotating to memories with her mum and the things she used to do as the subject, 'the dog' was family and is a connection to past and present through memories. Other work such as the work in environments of the beach on vicious days show a sense of serendipity.
Emily's life during lockdown
She was able to produce and self publish zines. The lockdown encouraged her to push the boundaries of DIY and experiment more with at home scenery and scene sets. Creating self published books through practise has enabled her to now become a published book maker. She explained how experimenting and attempting these things have opened doors with new connections and artists.
What other work has she done?
Worked with organisations such as 'The art house of organisation'
Worked with exhibiting in the Wakefield pride of joy exhibition
Started a £500 micropot funding for commission based work called 'solo dance'. Photographing dancers from the the dance school 'Kapa'.
She has created lunar backdrops to create a sense of the dancers defying gravity with their movements through methods of solarization
Studied in Lisbon initialising and analogue photography and conceptual projects.
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