For my first shoot, I will be looking through family photos and albums to look at the three generations of my family; my grandparents, my parents and me. Through the years of taking photos, it has been highly developed from photos being printed and placed into albums which was mainly what my grandparents and parents did, up until now where phones have been developed to where you can now save the images on your phone, so their has been a decline in physical album making and the use of disposable cameras. Not only has the way of storing photos changed, but the context of the images have changed as well. During my grandparents years, photos were a privileged thing to have and wasn’t a common thing along with photos being staged and directed, however photos are more now candid and capturing the moment as it is, which tends to be a common trend within baby pictures due to the lack of communication between baby and parents, but as the child begins to age and are able to communicate photos become more staged between parents and baby’s, which is a trend through my family photos.

During this shoot I mainly focused on photos that my grandparents and parents took, which allowed me to see how times had developed as photos my parents had taken where in colour and more in focus compared to the photos from my grandparents which where more out of focus and in black and white.