Chance and Choice Photography

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Image of woman walking on balcony looking at plants

Project Brief:
Consider how documentary-style photography can be used to tell stories. Explore how photography is both constructed and spontaneous, truth and fiction. Choose an image to reframe / reimagine.

A brief to copy someone else’s work is not one you get very often as a creative, often it’s something you want to avoid entirely. Despite this I was drawn to Elinor Carucci’s photograph ‘Early Morning, Mother of Two’ (2010). It has quality of story within the subjects it captures. I was interested in recontextualising the image. I wanted to see what would happen if I captured a subject in a different place. How would it change the story told? To do this I photographed myself in my apartment in amongst my plants. The goal was to evoke a calm feeling rather than a rushed one like in Carucci’s photograph.

Image of a woman running on the street
Image of a woman with her hair covering her face
Image of a woman looking away from camera
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Copywright Lauren Murray 2026