PROJECT PROPOSAL

NATURE VS NURTURE?

I have always been interested in the nature vs nurture debate. Being estranged from my farther for 10 years and then gaining contact again It always baffles me as to how we are so alike. I would like to explore into the debate regarding my grandmother. I didn’t know my grandmother but am I her? Has she influenced her loved ones (my farther) enough for them in turn to influence me in my very early years, so I can become her? Or is it simply the nature of my genetics that have me resembling my farther more so over my mother, yet I was nurtured my whole life my by her. I want to use the strategies and improvisation skills I developed through my final project for my degree, to work through how to photograph a project with people who live in Scotland and are self-isolating.

Ideas for shooting

As I cannot go to my grandmother’s house and begin experimenting there, I have asked my grandfather to post over some of my grandmother’s belongings. I wish to photograph myself with them. I want to play around visually with the idea of her identity and me.

Using only natural light within a green location of significance such as my own garden, a field behind my grandparents’ British home and hopefully my grandparents’ current home in Scotland.

Space can be used as an important factor within images if the photographer choses so. with a documentary nature to my work I feel the location and space I take my images will be a key factor.