Jade Birchnall started of doing photography at Burton College but then went on to do a Degree in Photography at Manchester Metropolitan University. Jade prefers to use black and white film camera's. Jade decided after photographing her Nan who has senile dementia that she wanted to carry on with a similar project so she got into contact with a Catholic run care home, where she then went to get to know the residents and then once she got to know them she started taking photographs of them and the nuns and nurses. She also created an extra project within this project called 'photographs for the residents' she did this because she thought that most of the images she had created with her projects where quite sad and she didn't want the residents to see themselves like that so she photographed some of the residents when they were laughing and happy so then she could show them then and they be happy about how they see themselves.
the photograph to the left shows her grandma and her brother, she said that she was particularly drawn to this photograph because it shows her brother looking very sad which then represents the sad time that the family has had to deal with for the past couple of months. 
the photograph above shows notes which have been left for her grandma to read and to remind her of the things that need to be done or what not do to, or what to do if something happens, or who is coming over to see her and there are also many examples of notes which i wont go on about too much. then the little heart hanging up in the photograph on the right hand side says "mother in law, you are so important to me" which also ties in nicely into the photograph because it gives her the love and confidence which she needs so that has simply been placed there to remind her grandma that they are always there for her and always love her.
Jade then talked about how she hooked up with one of her uni friends and decided they were both interested in taking photographs of strippers, so they both contacted numerous strip clubs around the area to see if they could do a shoot. They got a response from a strip club called 'Baby Platinum Gentlemen's Club'. Most of the strippers to starts with didn't want their photograph taken but once one of them had told the others they decided they wanted it done, even though most of them didn't want their faces in the photographs. Jade wanted to capture the imperfections in each of the stripper to show that not everyone's perfect. Jade is influenced by many different photographers including Nobuyoshi Araki for the photoshoot that she did in the strip club. She was also influenced by many other photographers who then started her into using film camera's much more. These all influenced her to make several different types of photographs and images and even influenced her to make an audio to go with some of her photographs to make more of an effect.
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