Last project and over the summer

I wanted to begin this project by reflecting on my last project, what i liked and what i didnt and how i can use this in my new project. I really enjoyed researching into the ideas behind why people did what they did with self destruction and self harming and i want to bring that passion for the research for my new project. I think i would also like to start off in both medium and leaving it to later to pick or choose which one i continue with. I really need a project i can sink my teeth into and something i am passionate about. I really wanted something that i could make last with ideas and passion. I do like the darker side of things, maybe not so much black and white but carrying on with the darker ideas its something that i am passionate about. But i also want to be able to add to my portpholio and improve on my weaknesses. 

My weaknesses seem to be keeping up motivation mainly. But i also find my weaknesses include confidence problems, which means i dont find it easy to do portraits, however over summer ive been trying to improve on this by doing portraits for people, mainly family portraits infront of a studio background, but its something i want to continue to improve as well as fill out the lack of portraits in my portpholio. But i also dont want to be limited to just portraits. Here are a few examples of the work i did over summer.

I also did a commition of location/achitecture shoot for an american professer doing a reaserch paper on one of my local towns and its history linked with the writer Charles Dickens and locations used in his book Edwin Drood. Which allowed me to play around with composition and lighting, expesh within the interior shots.

My idea for this project is to work on my creative approach, and to aim to achieve bigger and put in more to achieve something better then i thought i could achieve. ive been thinking of a theme to create my work around and looking back on what i did last year i think i want to do something that i can use personal influence on as well as being able to explore alot of aspects and i seemed to have focused and got excited about the idea of 'fears' exploring them, there effects on people and even delving into nightmares. I like it because it really opens up to alot of stuff i can explore with.