For the Unseen Christmas project, I aim to produce a series of photographs that explore the dark side of the festive season. When I went out Christmas shopping on Tuesday, I passed two things that caught my eye. The first was a Victorian house with black and white walls and support beams and a green mesh over the window on the top floor. I associated these things with feeling trapped and feeling bogged down by Christmas, green being a common colour around this time of year, as if there was somebody who didn't enjoy Christmas and felt like they couldn't get away from the darkness underneath.
The second thing I happened to pass was a broken down motorbike. The main chassis was black but the other components were white. I took note of this recurring contrast between black and white and thought to myself "If the front white bit of the motorbike is broken, the black looks as if it's slowly consuming and eating it up". I associated black with darkness and pain, while the white reflected the joy of snow and Winter; it's as if in order for people to enjoy Christmas for what it truly is, some people out there must go through lots of pain to make it that way.
My idea for the Unseen Christmas is to show through real-life everyday objects how one person's joy is another person's pain. This is the reality of the world that we live in, since without pain, we'd never get to experience pleasure, and I wish to make everybody aware of that through the power of photography as well as make them aware of the trouble that people go through to make the world a properly functioning place.
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