For my personal study, my interpretation of nostalgia will be based around femininity and youth. I am going to take inspiration from a previous project that I have done based on femininity which was originally inspired from ‘Girl Pictures’ by Justine Kurland. I have also gained inspiration from the school photography trip when we visited the ‘ParisPhoto’ exhibition. When looking at different photographers work, I came across a certain photo named ‘Fashion’ by Paul Kookier which I think is really cool and has given me inspiration. Another photographer which I discovered was Rene Groebili, and his series of images ‘Dag Augé Liebe. I am intrigued by this sequence of images because it shows a more mature side of femininity when compared to Girl pictures by Justine Kurland.

I am wanting to do my project on Femininity and youth as I am very inspired by all the women around me and I believe that women have their own sense on nostalgia about them and its a very broad subject which can be interpreted in many different ways. I will be using some images from my previous shoot, however I intend to do a few more shoots in bathrooms and social settings with groups of girls. But base it on girl hood and how girls have close relationships with one and another.

I am wanting to present my study in a photo book form. Which means that I will a large amount of images taken to edit. And would roughly need a minimum of 30 final images. I intend to begin my study for this project as soon as possible to allow me the most amount of time possible to compete it. I don’t have any set specific locations in which I am wanting to shoot. However, a couple ideas are in bathrooms, in a garden and bedrooms.