Collection of images as a pre-shoot for the final project at Jackson Training Center, Concord NC.
This series came from the abandoned dormitory residences found leading up to the main parlor house which is to be our primary shooting location. It wasn't easy for us to be in these spaces all the time, but after awhile they became familiar to us. Still, the most unsettled feelings came from within the residence buildings. It wasn't hard to imagine what life was like there, minus the personalities of the administration, because most of the structures were still intact. Of course, observing things in color was one way of viewing it, but I had no idea what the level of eeriness would be until after I had developed the b/w images.
Considering the lives of patients there, and even under a heavy dose of mind-numbing medication, you wonder what level of scared and hopelessness one might've felt if they were a residence in this place. There is hardly a sense for freedom and a return to things normal.
Being a delinquent means a lot of things, but I would describe it as being wild or untamed and independent, free from societal control. To have that spirit ripped away from someone and fed drugs to suppress those inhibitions must've been excruciating to all parts of the mind, body and spirit.
Visiting the residencies first helped us to become aware of our shooting location. Getting the insiders account to life in the Jackson Training Center as first a resident would better us in developing the narrative for our final shoot. Hopefully, the persons and places involved will then register in the final images. From that we could see a story unfold like none other, because it is our imagination teamed up with the preconceived notions we developed go hand in hand.
Delinquents in a sense that we will reconstruct what we believe to have happened there and not take from it the press release version of how things we're conducted.
Film: Kodak Tmax 100 ISO
Camera: 120 format holga
( Mar-Apr / 2011 )
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