One of the assignments on my current OU module was ' Imagining Crime' photographic Competition
I provided the viewer with positive examples of childhood. 280 x different words were typed onto a word cloud format and pasted onto an image of discarded fast food packaging These word equated to many positive traits and examples of childhood.
Entreating the viewer to reflect upon how society can be intolerant and unsure, and sometimes frightened by the labels which children and young people are unfairly given. Stereotyping children, for example as ‘Yobs’ or 'litter louts' . . . .Sometimes from just one action, or one behaviour, such, as in this instance - littering. Negative labeling has a huge impact upon society, communities and individual childhoods
Hope we can all see the bigger picture by seeing a little further
