Book Project Number 2

13 Reasons Why in Photos

I read the book 13 Reasons Why, where a girl named Hannah Baker creates a set of 13 tapes, each a reason for why she kills herself. Instead of making tapes like Hannah, I created photos, each trying to depict the main reason on each tape which ultimately results in her suicide. 

Without giving too much away about the book, I'll just explain some of the photos that I took.

In the fourth photo, there's a boy peeking in on "Hannah's bedroom" and taking photos. Hannah explains how this guy from school was watching her and taking pictures of her in her own bedroom. The one place she could escape- her room- now felt violated and all of her privacy was gone. 

In the seventh photo, there's a brown bag with Hannah's name on it. In one of the classes she takes, people  put compliments from the day's discussion in the bag to support one another. Someone begins to steal Hannah's notes of encouragement, which leaves her feeling under-appreciated and depressed.

In the final photo, Hannah tries one last time to reach out for help. She talks to one of her teachers and when he doesn't give her the advice she needs, it confirms her choice to end her life.

I thought that since Hannah chose such a creative way to explain her suicide, that I wanted to capture the same things she talks about, just in a different way. The photos are supposed to represent glimpses in to her life of the things that contributed to her death.