In this I was just going through a pen drive full of family photos and trying to find some good one I could use of my parents. I was trying to find one where my parents looked really in love so it would make the contrast between past a present really harsh. I plan on looking through and taking out photos from physical family albums as well, like Yoshikatsu Fujii has done.

In this shoot I was trying to capture candid moments while my mum and step-dad were watching tv. If I waited for them to be relaxed and distracted, they wouldn’t know I was photographing and therefore I’d get the purest outcome from the situation and therefore allowing my book to have more raw emotion in the future. With editing I kept it simple and made the images monochrome with some slight grain added.

This second shoot was mainly about trying to get ‘aesthetic’ styled images that would break up the portraits a little bit and add something artistic to the book. I was trying to get photos of plants in my mums garden so the photos would have some significance. I experimented using flash similar to Mateusz Sarello to get that aggressive ‘assault’ feeling. I also captured some more candid portraits. Again, keeping with the theme I intend for the book, I kept the editing minimal and again made the images monochrome and added extra grain.

This shoot I actually took on New Years Day. I thought this would be a perfect time to gain some photos of my mums lifestyle and would be a good contrast to my dads. I took photos of my mum doing the laundry and cooking the new years dinner. My mum always likes making events special so capturing one of these events would be very important in enhancing the meaning in my book as that is something that hasn’t changed because of my parents divorce. Again, I kept editing minimal and did the same as stated above.

This was a small little shoot as we were out. I thought including the landscape around where my mum lived would again break up the portraits but still have significance and a place within the book.

I got enough photos of my dad during this shoot. My dad doesn’t cook much so we often go out to eat. I thought I’d take a photo of the takeaway bag as it contrasted the images of my mums cooking very well. Capturing my dad loading the dishwasher was very similar to my mum doing the laundry so i thought that image would be very effective in showing similarities as well as differences. I thought taking images such as the photos of the dead flowers would play into the stereotype of living with a single dad, which a reader would recognise and be able to understand more. Editing was the same as above however I plan on maybe photoshopping my mum into one of these images as if she’s a ghost.