Statement of intent

For my project I want to focus on youth, focusing on friendships, friendship groups, love, and freedom to link with the aspect of nostalgia and memories liked with them. This matters to me as friendships are a massive part of my life especially growing up on a small island where sometimes there is not much to do so we try to discover unfamiliar places and when we find them, we create new memories there which link to the place. I wish to develop this project by extending the number of photos I have and diving more closely into my friend’s life’s and what it means to them to be in a friend group, what they think a friendship is and what memories they have linking with friendship.
I would like to explore the idea of creating a magazine or a hard back book to present my work. I will start my study by selecting and editing my photos which I already have and start taking and collecting more photos. The main focus of my project is going to be portraiture and some photos of landscape because it links with my view of nostalgia; as places links with memories, if possible,.
My photographs will be taken outside using natural lighting with some being taken inside with a flash. The images are going to be in a documentary style looking at teenagers’ life and friendship on a small island and discovering the joy of friendships and what they men to people.
the presentation of my book will be easy to follow, the images will be edited on lightroom classic; however, I do not want to manipulate the images in a drastic way I would like them to still look authentic I would just like to enhance the images to make them more eye-catching. To create the magazine, I will be using blurb to create the layout and pages.