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

By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought that you will be able to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features. It is also thought that by photographing a person in their natural surroundings, the subject will be more at ease, and so be more conducive to expressing themselves, as opposed to in a studio, which can be a rather intimidating and artificial experience.

This project will allow me to explore this way of taking portraits, not only finding out about the person, but also about their surroundings. This creates a very interesting concept, the photo revealing more about the person being photographed than portrait photos normally do.