What is environmental portraiture ?

An environmental portraiture is a portrait executed in the subject’s daily life or environment. For example a subjects home or workplace. This illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings which is usually unknown or unseen.

Both of these examples below which where found on Google show the subjects in their natural workplaces/ environment. The first image is clearly a formal image as it has clearly been set up whereas, the second image is informal as it shows the man working and doesn’t look set up like the first image does. The surroundings and backgrounds in environmental portraits is a key focus as it is used to convey a story within in an image about the person being photographed.