Alice Dickinson
Alice Dickinson is a Photographer from Manchester, mainly focusing on self-portraiture. While studying she has been looking into the "rules" of self-portraiture and how they can be broken, such as the figure being visible/recognisable, or that they should reveal information about the photographer.
Her current project, The Duplicate, explores what negative emotions such as anxiety and depression would look like if they were an external human form – separate, but linked to the person they inhabit - instead of being invisible. The series shows two figures: one as a solid figure and one as an abstract blur, with the latter representing the negative emotions. The work explores the complex attitude a person can have towards their destructive state of mind through the interaction of the two figures. There is a constant power struggle between the two, but also a sense of familiarity and even comfort in the Duplicate's presence.
