For my Childhood memory shoot, I aim to recreate a scene from one of my favorite storybooks or films as a child. After researching different documentary and tableaux photographers, I want to mainly combine the ideas of Anna Gaskell and Alfonso Almendros to create my own interpretation of a tableaux image, based on a childhood memory.  Instead of trying to recreate an image or a memory, I preferred creating a scene from a book or a film because it gives me more space to experiment and try out different ideas. I want to be really creative with my ideas and characters that I plan to create within the images.

The book that I plan on focusing on is the Cat in the Hat. I remember reading this book a lot as a child, and I also remember watching the film that later came out. I really liked the storybook, and remembering all the rhymes there were in the book.  However, I also remember first watching the film by Bo Welch. I was around five or six when first watching the film. I remember finding the character of the cat terrifying. I wanted to somehow represent this memory in the photography shoot. I planned taking the images in St Catherines woods, or somewhere in the evening so that the light will gradually be getting darker. I wanted this, so that it would help create the mysterious atmosphere. I will be using my friends to play the characters from the book and the film. I also plan on using different props and dramatic makeup to express the emotion I want to depict within the images.

I hope to incorporate ideas from Anna Gaskell and Alfonso Almendros in the shoot. Here are some of the images that I was drawn to the most. I want to add some of the mysterious effect that they create within my final images.