For my first shoot, I want to explore the area given to me. I am already familiar with the area as I live in it meaning that I have an understanding of the daily events that occur there.

I will use the flash on my camera in the same way Tom Pope did in order to achieve a strong vibrance of colour in my images. I want my images to have a high exposure but not overexposed, so that I can choose to edit them into black and white images like Albert Smith’s work if I feel that it suits the image.

At this stage, I have no clear intentions of what the meanings behind my photographs will be. Instead, I will focus on details that I see in the subjects I photograph. I will compose my images carefully depending on the way I want to portray these subjects.