1909 Health Inequality
1909 Health Inequality
Along with the information available on my website, this book forms part of my submission to The University of Arts London, London College of Communications ‘rethink project’. The rethink project challenges you to think differently about your ‘normal’ practice. The rethink project is part of the Master of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography degree.
My chosen theme of health inequality has been visualised not through images of people, which would have been my normal practice, but through urban decay and archival research online and at the Western Sydney records centre, NSW State Archives.
Health inequality and urban decay share similar characteristics relating to their social outcomes. Changes in government policy or technology can change the fortunes of ethic groups, individuals and infrastructure.
Specially, I have chosen the inequality of health as it relates to tuberculosis patients of the early 1900’s in New South Wales, Australia, at the Waterfall Sanatorium, south of Sydney.