Personal Work

Artist Statement

“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” says Ralph Hattersley. This is what it personally means to me. I want to create photographs to understand my life and what it not only means not to me but how to connect with others. ​I, Hannah Hopkins, photograph things that reflect my religious roots, soon to be motherhood, personal childhood, and explores the known self to create images. My work is a personal reflection to the self which includes self portraits, objects, exploration, and the process of the act of taking the photographs. The root of the ideas come from emotions and where photography is a form of therapy with my style. This refers back to what Hattersley said in the understanding of meaning of life but in how it connects with my personal work.