Looking through the generations

To look at myself through my family I decided to complete a small family tree of the people that I am close to and who I remember through out my life time.

From this I can see part of who makes me who I am along with many other family members and my ancestors before them. I have highlighted in red the family members who have passed away to show you how descendants are created as one family member passes away, another one will soon take their place but we will, however never forget them. This is to show you how descendants are created as many generations will be alive when I have passed away and so on.

From this I had the idea as to take portraits of my mother, father, nan and sister, my close family to show where my characteristics and features, where I was built from. I am also going to take photographs of both my old house and new house to show how I have moved on in my life and where I came from. I also want to take photos of the surroundings where I lived and where I live now, for example, I used to live outside a woods and now I live on castle lane, so I want to document my changing of house going from rural to urban surroundings, showing my progression through my life so far.

I think this will be a personal approach in relation to my postcard. I will finish the series with a self portrait of myself to show how I relate to the previous photos and have similar features to that of my other members to show my origin.