Within my new project of Environment, I wish to ultimately explore the various significant factors within my life. This varies from birth and my early years of life, through to adolescence into the point I am fast approaching now, adulthood.

Of course, I wish to present this through imagery. I am essentially attempting to tell a story, although I do not wish for this to be obvious. I want to explore various significant factors within my life, within the different shoots that I take. For example, significant people within my life or interests.

Within these shoots, my intentions are to photograph in such a way that is raw and real. Capturing true moments in order to really display a real representation of my own life, as well as the people and environment I surround myself within. Me myself, will not be the subject of my images, as I wish to use other people within my life in order to tell my story, for example the way in which one will act in front of me and the camera will help to convey a sense of the relationship I share with the subject.

Below documents a moodboard presenting somewhat the style of imagery I wish to create within my project. From the mind map I created I came up with the idea following my journey from birth, through to childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. Attempting to capture how I perceived my environment throughout these various stages until now. This would range from archival imagery, landscape photographs, portraits and various still life images, in order to give an overall impression of a particular moment in time or of a time period within my life.

Overall I am attempting to show how differently I see my world now, in comparison to how I may have in the past.

After a class discussion, which then lead to group work, various ideas about the concept of environment were noted down in the form of a mind map. Many ideas were developed and later fed back to the class to provoke some thoughts and initial ideas.

From the feedback I gathered, the one idea that provoked the most thought and inspiration was the idea of childhood and upbringing. This was largely due to the fact that envisioned a timeline of some sort, documenting the change in lifestyle that comes with growing up and the different perceptions we have of our environment as we age. With this idea in mind, I decided to create my own individual mind map to see how I could develop this new idea.