Value in Creative Practice: Photographer Jennie Gunhammar

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For this essay I am going to be talking about the value of a body of work called ‘Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond’ that was photographed by a young lady named, Jennie Gunhammar. I hope to bring other documentary photographers into the essay as they all have similarities to one another. I will be including some photographs such as; some of Nan Goldin’s and the famous photograph by Therese Frare of David Kirby on his death bed dying of aids. The photographs that Jennie Gunhammar produced for this series was showing the day to day life and struggle of; her twin sister Jessie and her partner Stan, who are both suffering from different diseases.
Jennie Gunhammar along with her twin sister Jessie was born in Sweden in 1975. They then later on in 1992 moved to London to educate themselves. Jennie and Jessie then at the age of 20 in 1995 started to do some modelling to support their education. Jennie not long after became the face of British Airwaves. Alongside of doing the modelling Jennie studied at London College of Communication. Meanwhile Jessie was taking different degrees in gender studies and social studies and also lectured at London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2002 Jennie was diagnosed with the disease Lupus, in 2004 her twin sister was then diagnosed with the same illness.

A year before Jennie published her first solo project in 2007 she had decided she would like to go down the artistic route that she had always wanted to. Her and her sister had been looking at different exhibitions to get inspiration for what she wanted to do. After looking at several different exhibitions she realised that the most compelling and emotional bodies of work was the ones that were personal stories. They had b...

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