Reena Kaur's A2 Photography Exam: Final Outcome Developing: Montage Images

In relation to being a part of 'My Generation' I selected three main categories we are most commonly associated with. The following images are part of three separate montages for my final outcome; Personal health issues such as addiction to smoking. The idea behind smoking is that once a person has had the second cigarette it is your own choice and this is where the addiction starts. Cigarette smoking has become a fashion statement, as images on Tumblr have broadcasted it to be a 'social thing' and to qualify as a teenager of from this generation you need to have these essentials in life. It's been glorified as opposed to NHS adverts to adovcate the quitting of smoking. Tumblr has made a supposedly 'Cool thing.'

Personal Health Issues:

Self harming; it's a disorder, an addiction just like smoking however these cutting is triggered by anything. I included this category because of how we've become this generation where we throw words around like 'oh I'm so bipolar' or 'i'm depressed' but its a sentence, nevertheless it's a disorder. It's as though this is a list to all things you need to qualify as a teenager from 'My Generation.'

Alcohol is similar to smoking as both are intoxicating the body. This has also been glorified by social media sites; they say we'll feel better once we're not sober, much more confident? A picture of vodka with pretty flowers around it on Tumblr would get over a million reblog's which is the first stage of enforcing 'you should drink because this picture is pretty' from the internet.

Medication was selected as of suicide- a disorder. "In 2012, 21% of contacts with Samaritans (over 600,000) involved individuals expressing suicidal feelings" taken from the Samaritans website. It was the idea that teenagers are beginning to rely on medication to feel better because they can't find any effort to think and convince their mind and body that they will be ok. This section is tackling all the main disorders and alternatives to not facing what is.

Choices:
A generation highly influenced by skinny and pretty models and saturated by front covers of perfection (so they say). Victoria secret model's being a size 0 or 2 forces young teenage girls to check the calories on something, I included an image of a box of green tea and showed the calories of it- but that's healthy? We are living in a generation where we think skipping dinner will make us look skinny the next morning. The idea that we do 10 squats a month but still see no change. This is a massive issue in 'My Generation' especially with girls, because of the idea of not being good enough.