For my Personal Investigation, I want to focus on my mobile family life and how this lifestyle has effected me as an individual. I will explore how living in different countries has allowed me to gain cultural knowledge, new experiences and memories. It has ultimately shaped who I am and how I perceive the world. Through childhood images, I want to highlight how grateful I am for the adventures I have had with my family and how they have encouraged me to continue traveling and exploring. The reason for this constant movement is because of my dad. His job as a teacher doesn’t involve travelling, however his boredom has urged him to live in different places with me and my mum.

For my photo-book to have a narrative, I will tell the story of how my mother and father met and fell in love in Peru. Since my father is a geography teacher, he takes the opportunity to go travelling whenever he can. Through applying to jobs in different countries, he ended up in Peru which is where he met my mother Isabel. I will present their love story through archival images and display highlights such as first moments together, the wedding day and when I was born. Afterwards, I want to explore my mixed identity and the different cultures I have been exposed to during childhood.

As the plan above explains, the narrative will start with archival images of my father and mother and their first encounters together as a couple. The middle section will contain archival images after I was born. It will be in chronological order and show how we moved from one country to another: Peru, Singapore, Austria, Thailand, Germany, Gran Canaria, England and Jersey. The final section could include digital photo-montages of self portraits to explore my current identity.