Statement Of Intent, A Portrait Of Kent

Statement Of Intent

Title: Follow Me: A Portrait Of Kent

For the project Follow me I have a selected a photographer to research, Pieter Hugo. When getting to understand the portraits that Pieter Hugo works in Africa I have began to understand what the message that is being conveyed with us having to come together when it comes to problems we have in life.


While the concept for the project is going to be the people of who are in Kent at the time of shooting. After drawing inspiration from the way that Pieter Hugo photographers communities that have been forgotten or the subject is controversial or unusual to the local communities. I am planning on linking my project around The Portrait of Kent, with shooting people with the typology mark on them to show that we are more linked than we try to make out due to the way we have all acted since the vote to the Leave the EU, while some of the shots also show we need to understand how we are the same inside.

The Methodologies for this project feature the locations for the shoots are going to be in Ashford, Canterbury and Folkestone with it being done in a vertical and horizontal format in camera. The shoot is going to revolve around the local community. The Subjects are members and tourists in the local communities in Kent they are, professors, gardeners, Guide dog trainer and other members of the public that I stopped in Ashford, Canterbury and Folkestone.

The Audience is aimed for people who want to understand more about Kent and what the subjects in Kent are all about. The Intended Publication I am planning on placing the end results on Instagram with the full work being placed in a book to show the life of Kent and what a portrait of Kent is all About

With the Equipment Pieter Hugo normally shoots on a Hasselblad medium / Large Format camera and with the prints being produced in a square format. As I am using Pieter Huge as inspiration I am going to be using A Nikon D3400, with 18-55mm, 55-200m and 35mm lens to get the stand-out portraits they will be produced in a vertical format in the book, I am planning on making some of the prints look like they are in a square format.