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‘CHELSEA_GIRL’ by IVY_S
PRIMARY - 20 OCT 2016
"I shot myself because I thought that seeing myself through the lens of a camera and seeing photographs of my body would allow me to recognise it for what it is. When I see my body in a mirror or in a reflection, I feel self-conscious and can't separate it from my own ingrained perceptions of it. But when I faced the camera towards myself and later viewed the images, even though I knew I took them, it was still as if I was seeing what my body looked like from someone else's gaze. It was like I was seeing it from a different perspective to my own, from the outside. I wanted to know what that would feel like. I thought that it would be humbling and it was :)"

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