In the first lesson we were given the Brief, A sense of place. My initial ideas were to subvert the brief and photograph people who did not feel like they had a sense of place in society, such as documenting homelessness. I briefly looked at photographers such as Valery Melnikov’s Underground, Cesar Ordonez’s Tokyo Blur and Paul Cupido’s Searching for Mu which gave me ideas to not only photograph people but to create eerie and mysterious pictures which also convey loneliness and would accentuate the absence of a sense of place. My second idea was to still create a documentative collection, but to focus it on my own personal sense of place. I had the idea of visiting my birth town in Poland and documenting where I spent the first couple of years of my life, as it is a sense of place for me but it is also quite distant in my memories and my feeling of sense of place, as I have grown up in the UK. I envisioned myself taking these photos in places of my hometown where I remember being and I have memories of, and also exploring places I don’t remember or I have never been to create a collection of photos that convey to others what a small town in Poland looks like, and to convey and strengthen my own sense of place in my Home town. I made a mind map of photographers who inspired me and why: