I feel like I have made a good start to my project on Freedom of Speech with researching into different iconic events and photographs, and then also researching into the Berlin Wall and photographing that. But I know need to decide what I'm going to photograph which will represent freedom of speech through a documentary/ portraiture format.
I began researching into different events that were being held in the United Kingdom that supported my idea of freedom of speech. The events I am looking for are protests/ walks so I can photograph the supporters and the event in general.
After quite a while looking for different events I found one that is happening in London on the 1st February 2015, this is a peace procession which is meeting outside Westminster cathedral. I think this would be a perfect opportunity to start photographing an event which was very close to my idea, and begin improving my techniques in documentary photography at the start of the project. The procession is being held by Peace Strike, which is an organisation that is constantly campaigning for peace throughout the world. So even though this isn't directly connected to my Freedom Of Speech project, photographing this event would give me good practise for an event I later come to photograph, which is connected to freedom of speech.
http://peacestrike.org/about/
The only problem with this is that there was only one website which mentioned it, so I contacted them via two email addresses to make sure that this event would still be going ahead and I wouldn't waste a journey to London for nothing, so I will await their reply.
After deciding I was going to go to this event, the next thing to do was start looking at photographers to understand their techniques of photographing these events so I would be ready when the event arrives.