Marina Abramovic and Izumi Miyazaki influenced my photoshoot a lot. From Abramovic I took the idea of performance and directed many scenarios in my project that displayed the characters and traits of my subjects. I shot my whole project in one room, my subjects personal space which I interpret as her landscape, decorated in an organised mess that represents many characteristics of the individual in each object that lies around her room and the interactions she has with them. My concept behind the series is influenced behind the history of women in art and Miyazaki. Miyazaki has control over the representation of her sex because she is taking them herself. Miyazaki purposely produces pictures that move away from the classifications of female stereotypes. As a female, I thought it was important that the representation of my subjects displayed them as individuals and not as objects, therefore keeping them in their personal environments and disregarding any ideas of perfection or social ideologies of how women should look and what women do. Women taking pictures of other women allows complete control over representation. I wanted the effect of getting to know the subjects when the series is viewed rather than seeing someone who looks ‘aesthetically’ pleasing in terms of beauty standards within the western world, with no character behind the individual. The series is a personal look into a stranger’s life, using the notion of scopophilia but with consent and without the expectation of female stereotypes.