An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings.

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Mind Map of Ideas

Plan

My mum does a lot of art and up-cycling and is currently fixing and painting a set of chairs. I plan to take photos of her painting as well as portraits of her in front of projects shes completed to create the effect of an environmental portrait.

I narrowed down the photos by getting rid of the ones where she wasn’t looking at the camera as I felt that they weren’t actually portraits.

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Final selection

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Conclusion

In conclusion, I feel like the photos fit the subject matter of environmental portraits well as my model uses the kitchen as a workspace for her projects and is surrounded by some of her work. Anyone who saw this photo could easily gain a rough idea of what she does by just glancing at the portraits as the use of overalls and props like the paintbrush and paint on the face directly connote art .