I started off with an idea to focus my project around my family, friends and my heritage. I took some photos to experiment but realized I wanted to go a different direction to what I had intentionally planned. Instead my plan will be to focus the project more on myself and the music I listen to because I feel like what style of music you listen to can influence you as a person.

The photoshoots I take will be loosely based off different genres/subgenres of music and how I view them – for example when I think of a style like blues or folk music I picture a scenic photoshoot of a landscape or something peaceful like the sea or night sky however with rock/punk rock or metal I think of a busy photo with lots of things that catch your eye instead of just one main focus.

For my first step I looked at some iconic photos of musicians, particularly in the rock or grunge scene from the past few decades, then picked some that really stood out to me:

I planned to give my photos the same atmosphere as these – some chaotic with a lot of things going on whilst some with one main focus like a few of these above. My original plan was to create a photomontage much like David Hockney or Christian Marclay’s work, but once I began my editing I realized I wanted to use a grid format instead. I then made a mindmap of where I could go and how I could take my photos.