“YOU ARE VERY HARD TO LOVE”

“You Are Very Hard to Love”: a series of portraits of the women who have meant the most to me over the years.

Constructed and produced in my final year of university, I wanted to create an homage to my family in the style of some of my favourite renaissance environmental portraits.

These images were designed to be accessible to anybody and everybody, they can mean whatever you want them to. I aimed to highlight self-determination and the relationships the sitters have with themselves, the relationship they have with me and my relationship to them.

The photographs presented adhere to a loose typology and feature twelve women who have performed in a caring role in my life so far. The title comes from an insult that was once directed towards me, and with this series, I wanted to contrast this phrase with the images of twelve woman who have contradicted it.