I decide to follow the route of photographing my family at home, even though the location of Ramsgate produce visually exciting photographs, I feel the area of my home would make more sense to the theme of identity.

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My mum doesn’t like to be photographed, but I wanted her to look natural. So for one set of images, I sat her in the living room sofa, while holding Peppa, our guinea pig. My mum is a carer of animals, and like me is very creative. We have a household of 2 dogs, 2 rabbits, 8 chickens and a guinea pig. So, I wanted to look natural and comfortable.

Then I did a close-up portrait of her outside, I wanted to shoot with a neutral background, in a place she likes, which is the garden. It produces very cool effects while making it look natural and not stage at the same time. I used the same editing process as before, by changing them to black & white, with a raw adobe preset.