From these past experiments in which I have studied the church community and it's surroundings, I decided that all of this is due to the older generations of which have built and developed these communities and which we have them to thank for it.
     I decided that I wanted to visit a rest home over a period of days in which I would observe and document both the atmosphere and the beings of the residents so that I can realise what they've been through and what they have now become within aging. To show how these people were once what was the youth and who were here through the hard times of the past. These people are the ones that we look upto and who we have come to respect.
     I believe that within every blemish, wrinkle and scar you can see into someone's life and past as well as their experiences, good and bad and what they have had to go through throughout their lives. Every wrinkle and face expression tells a story and by getting to know the person within, you can then begin to know them from when they were younger as well as what they have become. Every person is different and most of the older generation have the best stories of which can have real impact on a person such as myself.


With ageing comes beauty and a life's story.

I knew that I wanted to capture these photographs in a documentry style with a detatched and yet personal approach towards the people within the rest home.

Before going to the rest home I decided to look at a few different photographers of which may inspire my photographs as well as showing myself through them. I wanted to know of different ways of taking photographs in which could inspire people and make the viewer intrigued with the people within the photographs and want to know more about them.

I looked at Richard Billingham's series of photos entitled 'Rays a Laugh' in which were taken on the cheapest film he could find, in which provided brash colours and bad focus adding to the authenticity and sharpness of the series. Ray, his alcoholic father, who is drunk on his own 'home brew', and his mother Liz, an obese chain smoker who has a fascination for nicknacks and jigsaw puzzles. They appear at first glance as grotesque figures but as you look more into the photographs you can see their destined way of life shining through as well as their troubled yet deeply human and touching personalities in the way that they communicate with each other through the photographs.