An environmental portrait is a portrait taken in the subject’s usual environment, for example, in their home or place of work. These types of photographs can reveal things about the person photographed, such as where they feel the happiest or most content. Environmental portraits capture people in their natural environment rather than in a studio where photographed can be forced. This way the photos can almost tell a story of the subject since they’re being captured in their own, personal element.
Typology is a single photograph or more commonly a quantity of photographs that share a high level of consistency. The term was first used to describe a style of photography when Bern and Hilla began documenting dilapidated German industrial architecture in 1959. They described their subjects as ‘buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style’. Every photograph was taken from the same angle, at approximately the same distance from the buildings.
Typographs links to environmental portraits as the photographs are all taken in a similar way, using the same techniques.
Well done for linking typology back to Environmental Portraiture but this should be expanded slightly. Eg. Not all environmental portraiture is a typology. But it is a technique used by some environmental portrait photographers, e.g. August Sander … you could use him as an example here.