Environmental Portraiture is a photographed portrait that captures a subject/s in its natural surroundings instead of in a studio or other artificial background setup. These ‘environmental portraits’ can be used to tell a story behind an individual’s place of work, personal history, and daily life especially someone’s connection to a certain place and being able to tell a story through the art of taking a photograph. Environmental Portraiture may reveal about a person their work conditions/ how their environment may impact their daily life (if they look upset/ way they are positioned and the individuals status may present how they feel)

What is a typology in photography?

• Typology in photography is a single photograph or more commonly a body of photographic work that has a high level of consistency. Usually found within the subjects, environment and direction of the subject.
• Typology can link to Environmental Portraiture as both topics discuss different aspects of change/ nature. Environmental Portraiture shows a collection of numerous characters and careers and contrasts between them, as well as typology presenting changes and contrast in a collage of multiple photographs.