I had a lot of different ideas down in my notebook for what my idea was going to be for my self directed project, but a lot of them didn't have enough substance behind them. I want to focus on documentary photography, because that is what my passion for photography involves. After deciding that it was under a documentary theme my project would lie, I had to decide what it was going to cover/ respond to. I wanted my documentary project to take include both candid images as well as portrait, because I felt that I began to get really good at taking portraits in my last project which focused on Cultural Diversity in Manchester. I began looking at current world affairs, which I could then base my project on in response to this specific affair. I noticed house prices were still rising in London, which would result in more people becoming homeless, this gave me the idea of basing my project on homelessness, the only problem with this is that so many people have photographed this before so I wanted to do something different. There were also other stories which were about Ebola, this would be something in the future I would think about going and photographing but obviously for this project the legistics to photographing this theme are far to expensive and difficult. I hope to in the future photograph current foreign affairs, that are effecting different areas.
One story that was bigger than anything else in the news the last couple of weeks was the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks that happened in Paris between the 7-9 January. Because this story was so big, especially with the constant movement of 'isis' (the islamic state), I decided that I wanted to base my project around this event but I just need to figure out what my angle is in responding to this event.