For my personal study, I want to explore nostalgia and girlhood, focusing on mine and my sisters childhood memories and the bond we have.

This idea is significant to me because there is a real sense of nostalgia when looking back on the past. The majority of my childhood was spent outside, spending time at the sandunes, woods, St. Ounes beach. and football pitches. We both used to surf together and paly football so, I will plan to take photos surrounding these topics.

To start off my project, I will look back at old images from my childhood, which will help me in the process of taking my new images. This also links to the theme of nostalgia as I will be looking back on and reliving my childhood memories. Once I have looked back at the archived images, I plan to go back to all the places that have a significant meaning to my childhood such as various beaches, the woods, football pitches and the sand dunes. I will carry out a photoshoot at each location which, I will use to document my childhood and the theme of sisterhood.

I want to present my present my project as a photobook as my project is more on the documentary side of photography. By presenting my work as a photobook, it will enable me to tell a story as I will be able to experiment with the layout and put the images in a specific order, creating juxtapositions.

I am going to aim of my project to include a range abstract, landscape and portrait images. Most of my images will be taken outside at various different locations as it is where me and my sister made most of our childhood memories. When carrying out my photoshoots I will consider the composition, framing and lighting to create a strong set of images.

I an going to interpret the theme of nostalgia by looking back on my childhood. I may also explore the idea of breaking down the stereotypical activities girls and boys do when they’re young, looking at the work of Barbra Kruger who edits images displaying short impactful sentences over images. As I start to take my images, I will start to develop on my idea. I have looked at artists such as Justine Kurland, Julia Margaret Cameron, Van Has De Meer and Barbara Kruger for inspiration. I will shoot my sister in each of the significant locations and may take some landscape images and images of the objects in the places I visit. Most of my images will be staged as well as taking some candid images.

To edit my images, I will be using Lightroom Classic as well as experimenting with photoshop if I need to further enhance my images.

As well as nostalgia, I also want my project to link back to the theme of femininity and girlhood. I will be using Justine Kurland’s project ‘girl picture’ as inspiration for my project as well as Julia Margret Cameron. These two artists had a strong influence on the art of photography, exploring the theme of girlhood throughout their work.