My focus for this project was freedom and limitations. I chose to look at the freedom of an individual and their hobby. I started by looking at a dancer, shown in my early experiments. I later decided to focus on artistic roller skating. This lead me to my photo book: The Individuals Take on Freedom as shown below. It demonstrates how freedom can be interpreted differently for each person. In this case, the freedom is gained from roller skating. The images can present this due to the composition, for example the spread and open body language can show freedom as the individual is not closed off or hiding. It can also be linked to limitation due to the time, effort and commitment it takes. For example the images of the individual competing at competitions when they are young implies the age of when they started. This exposes how long it takes to develop these skills and reach a high standard. We are shown that the commitment of activities can impact life negatively, effecting both social features due to the amount of time it takes up and physical features as it is a sport and can result in injury or fatigue. Indications of improved mental features are relevant as the freedom of doing the thing one enjoys the most can help an individual to escape their reality for a while. There is also the achievements you gain which makes it worth all the hard work. My photo book covers all of these ideas with the medals and competition photos showing the achievements, the skating photos highlighting the developments and improvements made and the black and white body images representing both the strain it can cause and the beauty of the body. The body is a major part of artistic roller skating as it is important to be able to compose yourself correctly are create a beautiful performance. Focussing on individual features clearly shows the beauty more distinctly, especially with the face as it can be used to portray emotion and tell a story. This creates a more engaging and moving performance for the audience, similar to the detail within the photos creating an interesting series of images for the viewer. The use of colour throughout the book creates eye-catching pages, with the black and white body images breaking up the book keeping it refreshing. The black and white images create a serious tone compared to the coloured images. This can help represent the limitations as they are darker than the freedom. It could also suggest the importance of these body images and convey a message about loving your individual self no matter what, embracing any flaws or minor imperfections you feel you may have.