Brainstorm of ideas:

• Traditions and beliefs
• Immediate/ extended family
• Different perspectives
• Past family – photo albums
• Daily routines
• Emotions
• Family of friends
• Blood relatives, adoption, careers
• What defines a family?
• Acceptance into families

I want to explore the Idea of family beyond the people that you are related to by blood such as communities, close friends and teams which can come through things such as hobbies. Linked on to this Idea I also want to explore what defines a family in the modern day rather than a typical traditional family. I’m going to try and photograph what it is like to be within a non- related family and the things that they get up to while spending time together on an everyday normal basis.

The second Idea that I would like to explore is the Idea of past family members, memories and old photo albums. By photographing what it’s like living without them now for example: taking pictures of what is going on in their past homes and what it was like before they past away by incorporating different photographs from family photo albums.