Mind map Plan For Photoshoot

Environmental portraiture is a photograph in which shows a person in their natural environment.

I have written down a few ideas of what type of settings I’d like for my photos, I’ve been inspired by Mary-Ellen Mark’s work so I plan to add elements of her own style in my work such as making some of my images in black and white to make my images more abstract which will make them more interesting.

I also plan to take photos of people in their familiar environments, for example, inside their homes or on a childhood street.

Environmental photographers

Letizia Battaglia was an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia. 

Another example of a photographer that takes environmental photos is Henri Cartier-Bresson. He was a humanist photographer influenced by surrealism. His work had helped establish photojournalism as an art form.

As seen in both of these photographers’ work, environmental portraits are photos that capture people in their everyday lives/environments and almost tells the story of how they live or work by their surroundings and maybe clothing.

We use this genre of photography to try and capture the personality, identity, soul, and emotions of a person by using the background, atmosphere, poses and lighting. They capture a part of a persons life and tells a story about their backgrounds and how they are living their lives.