Keeley Bentley

The Vegas of the North originated from a study that forms my on-going photographic practice, which questions the ‘unreality’ of female adolescence in the media. I have explored the role that the teenage adolescent has played in various sources, exploring how the false reality, when imposed upon the adolescent female, becomes the cause of unease and presents us with an oscillation between reality and fantasy. The false apprehension is therefore likely to alter the females’ conception of reality. I ventured around my hometown of Blackpool; the rationale being that drawing on my own experiences and knowledge of my hometown, I could look for the cinematic in the mundane.