My personal investigation will focus on the attatchment and bond that I have to the people in my life, and places I associate with memories or themselves. I will be focusing on the strengths of relationships, my parents have a very healthy and harmonious which I believe influences the healthiness of my relationship with my boyfriend. I will be investigating the complexity of families, my mothers side of the family is very close, they're from the north of England which tends to have large families. My fathers side however is a lot more cold and detatched, however, as time has passed some family members such as my grandfather hav realised that time is precious,leading him to try to rekindle relationships. On the topic of relationships, I want to focus on the vulnerabilities of relationships. I want to focus of the vulnerabilities of me and my parents, me and my siblings and me and my boyfriend. 

To capture images of my family, friends and boyfriend I will be using a realism approach. Realism is more documentative photography. I believe this will be the most suitable approach to capture my family as I want to capture certain moments of time. I shall also be including archival images into my personal study for example a photo of me and my family at Greve de Lecq beach as a child. That moment in time is a monumental image that has stuck with me. That image is a realism image and I want to revisit Greve de Lecq to display my attatchment to the place and the memories associated with it.

I am also going to focus on particular places that I associate with certain people and memories. One of my photoshoots will be a visit to Greve De Lecq beach as I associate it with a certain moment in time when I visited it with my family. I want to take photos of the sea as when I think of that memory I can hear the sound of the ocean and see it roll up onto the shore. To take these images I will have a slow shutter speed which will make the see look creamy and frothy. This will be a pictorialist approach which I think is suitable as although this is a clear m,emory, there are some parts that I don't remember as it was so long ago. I also want a pictorialist approach as I always paint the memory as an incredibly happy memory, so the dreamy photographic approach will reflect this.