An environmental portrait is taken within the subject’s usual environment, such as their home or workplace, and typically creates a focus on their life and surroundings.

Environmental portraits can tell stories about the lives of the people they capture, but they also conceal certain details about them. These types of photographs also play a pivotal role in showcasing people throughout different eras since the birth of photography, as they showcase clothing fashion, tools and other technology, and improvements in general quality of life.

My chosen artist to research is Alec Soth, as his style when it comes to environmental portraits tends to have quite natural, flowing light throughout the image and large senses of space.