In his Photographic Iconography of the Saltpêtrière (1876) Jean-Martin Charcot used photography to ‘evidence’ his patients’ hysteria in a process which often forced them to replay their original traumas.

Doing Some Hard Talking draws on this iconography to consider that the opposite can be true: that by engaging in the act of making and remaking photographs stories can be rewritten and past trauma resolved.

Working in this way, I am playing with the three meanings of ‘process’: a series of actions or changes, making pictures from photographic film and thinking about something difficult or sad so you can gradually accept it.