With the first initial thought of UNITY as the theme, I thought immediately of the word ‘together’. Unity can be seen as bringing things or people together through emotions and thought. Continuing on from this thought, I went back and analysed my archived work. My head immediately went to my work on the topic of Femininity and Masculinity, my work for that topic I believe is some of my strongest work so far. I loved the intimacy that I explored through that topic and I enjoyed working on skin and touch through that topic too.

I wanted to venture out of just solely focusing on intimate relationships for this new topic, I wanted to also explore the idea of Unity through community and friendships. I personally believe that friendships can sometimes be as intimate or even more then relationships, with your friends being the people you choose to be around, not just the people your placed around through family.

I’ve strayed away from the idea of photographing family for this topic due to a thought that, you are born into your family and as uniting as that is, I have come to personally learn that real bonds and platonic love comes from the people you choose to surround yourself with, like your friends. You are forever stuck with family but you choose to stick with your friends and your lovers. I feel that that is honestly so much more of an emotional and intimate outlook on the idea of friendships. I hold all of my relationships that I have with people very close to me and would love to be able to show that through my work.

Photography techniques –

Mirror photography –

Mirror photography is the technique of self portraiture in photography, allowing the artist to partake in the photoshoot. It connects the photographer to the work and story, that they may be trying to show. This shows a deep connection and vulnerability of the artist and allows the viewers to feel interlinked and accepting of the photographers thoughts and feelings.

Window photography –

Window photography is the technique of photographing almost the world outside your own. It can be seen as candid photography or street photography more often, but that is not all it portrays. Giving the viewers almost an inside look into someone’s life is not only interesting, but eye-opening. Allowing yourself to view others lives, can change not only your view but perspective on a lot of different aspects of life overall.

Analysation –

In my project, I want to include the use of not just window but also mirror photography, I want this project to show a vulnerable side to me as a photographer and allow it to connect me as a person to my work. Showing deep emotion and intimacy through my photoshoots, I want to not just relate to my work but also allow myself to accept the emotions I am trying to portray in it as well.

Including window photography under the same themes and ideas will be difficult to help portray the theme of unity, however, allows perspectives on others views to change. Believing that others may have the same thought or feeling on the topic will allow viewers to almost feel a sense of comfort in their opinion and helps widen the scale of acceptance when it comes to emotion and unity as a whole, since my perspective is only one of almost 8.1 billion people.