Five photos of reflection

For my five photographs of reflection I wanted to try and do something more personal, as I feel like that something I struggle with when it comes to making my work. To start off I was going to take photographs of myself and using an app to draw costumes from different centuries on top of the photo to past reflection but then I didn't feel like that was actually personal to me it's just something I wanted to do. 

I find that a lot of people use art and photography as a way to express and get out their emotions, previous traumas and rough patches in their life's, but I don't really feel like I have anything that big or dramatic that's happened to me that I could actually put in to my work, but something I am aware of is how I spend all my spare time thinking about the times I've had and the places I've been with the people I love. 

I'm someone that HATES being alone which I think is a pretty normal thing, I'm sure no one likes being alone or lonely but its like i've constantly got holiday blues or adventure blue.  Most of the time I'm fine because I'm at college and my mind is busy with the work I need to do, but as soon as I'm by myself it's like I spiral through memories of times I've had with people.  So to show how I feel when I'm alone I took photos of myself with my iPad thinking about the times I've had with friends. 

To make the pictures have more of a sad feel to them I tried to block out the background as I just wanted my face and shoulders to be in focus, to do this l used a single lightbulb place slightly above me and to get the light to reflect off parts of my skin better are used a make up highlighter. 

After taking my portraits I used old photos of me with people from the places I think of the most like Eden and Iceland. I merged my portraits onto the top of the old photos using the app"Snapseed".  I wanted to use photos that had me in them instead of just pictures of the places I've been as the idea is to show a photo of me currently reflecting on happy memories I've had and to emphasise my change of emotion.