I recently came across the work of Jefferson Cheng and am really excited about the links to my work and the potential inspiration I can take from his project Teenage Bedroom as Self-Portrait.
In 2005, Cheng gave out disposable cameras to 30 teenagers along with a questionnaire and instructions on how to take pictures of their bedrooms. Above is the book which shows all of the images and his findings and they show an intimate portrait of the teenagers and their bedrooms.
Such a similar idea to mine, creating a portrait of someone without actually seeing them although portraits are actually shown alongside actual portraits of his subjects. You can see a lot of the personality of someone within their room which is actually one of the reasons I asked for a picture of my subjects bedrooms within my list as it is such a personal thing. Whether they have decorated it themselves, it tells a lot about the person.
The use of disposable cameras are again used because it is instant, there is nothing they can do once the image has been taken. Changes cannot be made, it's too late and really they have nothing to compare it to as they cannot see the image and so they shouldn't really have anything that they would want to change.
The photographer has given them the list of instructions, camera and questionnaire and once this has been sent away to the subjects the photographs are totally out of the photographers hands and this is also the case with my proje
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