The focus of my essay is the Bechers and their Typologies, and so to respond to their work I decided to do a Typology with the houses on my estate, as when they were built, they were all built with the same blueprints, although half the houses were built with the garages on the right and the other half are mirror image layouts of those houses. These houses have evolved over time, as the people who have owned the houses over time have made changes to the doors, windows, paint, extending the houses etc.

I wasn’t able to photograph all 50 houses on my estate, as some houses were built on a slope and so were awkward to photograph. This is because I photographed all the houses from a higher angle by using a ladder, I have taken this from the Bechers rules of photographing, as they would usually use special scaffolding to photograph all the industrial buildings at the same angle.

I have now gone through the images I took and have picked the best photo of each house I photographed, I got 8 images of houses where the garages were on the left side, and 11 images of houses with the garages on the right.

From these images I will make two typologies, one with the images tagged green, and one with the images tagged blue. I will also experiment with both colour and black and white versions of these typologies.