honorable mention
Melissa Peper united kingdom
title
No Big Deal
Is it a big deal? You must ask yourself? “No Big Deal” is a performative documentary based on the accessibility and consequences of drug use among young adults. This series began as a documentation to an environment and as it developed it began to challenge the idea of fidelity of fact; using constructed artefacts to take the place of the unsayable and the unseen.
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entry description
Is it a big deal? You must ask yourself? “No Big Deal” is a performative documentary based on the accessibility and consequences of drug use among young adults. This series began as a documentation to an environment and as it developed it began to challenge the idea of fidelity of fact; using constructed artefacts to take the place of the unsayable and the unseen.
about the photographer
Melissa Peper is a twenty- one-year-old photography student studying at Manchester School of Art in the UK. She is known for her investigatory and exploratory approach, which uses the photograph, video and 3D model’s as a tool to create narrative and draw a viewer into interpreting relations between images. Her work also looks at topics and people that she has a personal connection with, spending as much time as possible in the environment she is photographing. Her stories are told from points of truth but also fiction. Her main aim is to discover things not obvious to the everyday eye.back to gallery