This was my first shoot to get comfortable with talking to people and taking portraits of people in the streets or working in shops. This photoshoot was to collect environmental portraits of people which I found mostly worked when people were working, or when I walked past a peculiar scenario or set up of people in the streets. This shoot helped me to gain an eye for looking out for interesting scenes and people which in a way gives as much insight about me as well as the subjects in each photograph, as these pictures are essentially a collection of what I like and find interesting.

EDITS

I decided to edit these pictures in black and white because it creates a more formal overview of the pictures and a different aesthetic essence within a photograph that you cannot achieve from a coloured photograph. This editorial decision has also derived from inspiration of Walker Evans’s ‘Labor Anonymous’ where he captures portraits of ordinary American ‘labourers’ or workers on a Saturday afternoon in Detroit. Although the photographs do not necessarily match Evan’s in terms of the set up of each scenario, there is the same idea of photographing a group of people – the people that make up St. Helier. I do like the idea of exploring typography within my design and editorial stages later on in my project.