For this individual project I was asked to create a website displaying my work and a new body of work which is up to me to create. I am going to focus on portraiture for this unit so I am going to look at photographers who work in and outside the studio. I am going to at portrait photographers such as Damon baker, nan Goldin, David Bailey and Sally Mann. I will also be doing a lot of research into other photographers websites to gather ideas for my own website. By researching these elements I hope to gain inspiration that ill carry me through the project and give me some good end results.

This unit is different from my previous projects because I have been given complete freedom to pursue whatever topic I come up with. I decided to stick to my strong points as a photographer for this unit, I want to work with creating some environmental portraits as this is an element of photography I really enjoy. I like creating environmental portraits because I love working with different people. I feel that as a photographer I can really draw out the personality of the sitter in an environment outside of the studio. I find when working in the studio the sitter often feel under pressure to make the right faces and sit the correct way, being out of the the studio helps the sitter relax and really come out of their shell. I have a number of locations in mind one of those being Leybourne Lakes. I want to shoot at Leybourne lakes as this is somewhere I have never ben before so I want to test my skills as a photographer to shoot at a location I know nothing about.

I am also planning to conduct a few portraits in the studio, it will be interesting for me to compare the results of the sitter in a studio environment to the sitter being outside. I am not following a strict set of rules for this project, I find I work better when I have more creative freedom so I am giving myself lots of time to come up with ideas and improve on my initial ideas. Overall I am looking forward to this unit as I have never been given the chance to have so much creative freedom in an assessed unit.