Environmental portraiture is considered a genre of photography. Environmental Portraits are photographed portraits which capture the subject in their natural environment or environments that they’re associated with. They typically highlight aspects of the subject’s life and surroundings.
‘The Locust Eater’, Udaipur City Palace, India Song
Max Ernst, painter. New York, 1942
Von den Lumpenbällen (rechts Gunther Sander,’),,
1929
W. Eugene Smith, photographer. New York, 1977.
‘The Brown Sisters’, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1975
‘In my skin’
‘The Green Room‘, 2003–2008
Sue Gallo Baugher and Faye Gallo at the Twins Festival. Twinsburg, Ohio, 1998.
A Place Like Amravati 2, Udaipur City Palace
How do we use these portraits?
These photographs are used to tell a story, more specifically details and information about a person or people’s lives. They may include certain objects which portray this, or this could be communicated through the subject’s clothing, pose, or the environment they’re photographed in.