The title of our next topic is Faith Family and Community.

These titles are very interesting because they can be linked together in different ways.

Community is the widest of the three words, as both Faith and Family can be interpreted as being communities.

Faith can be something you’re brought into because of your Family and from having been to church when I was younger a lot, there was a very strong community of people who all knew each other and all had something in common.

Family is a different type of community in that most of the time you don’t get to choose to be in it.

Some people don’t have a normal sense of family community, for example, people who have to go through Foster care because they have lost the family they were born into or because their Family community isn’t accepting of them; However some of these people find new Families, who they choose, and who choose them, and some manage to find community within a family of others who are in the same position as them;

And for some Families, like in some Portuguese and Italian families, the community that their family holds is one of the most important things to them, and they celebrate having big families.

One thing which I am going to explore with this project is the buildings and places that bring these three things, Faith, Family and Community together. Faiths have religious places in which they congregate, Families have certain places where they may go every year as a tradition, or somewhere they see each other often. All together I think I will look at the places that bring Communities together, and look at the different kinds of communities there are.

The photos which I will be collecting have to contain these things:

• Either are places with lots of people gathered, or where people would normally gather (e.g. a church on a Sunday or a church when its empty)
• Can be places with strong Faith/Family/Community connections or without. (e.g. a church, where everyone is of the same faith vs a Plane, where people are all gathered together, but not necessarily of the same faith/family/community)