PHO705 FMP A sense of Belonging ( a study of community around Working Mens clubs)

It’s coming together,I feel like a shape to the project is emerging and a sense of direction has arrived.

Centred around set up portraits I want to celebrate the stereotypes and the people who make up this microcosm of the wider locality. I hope it will represent the area well and the viewer will get a sense of diversity the changing face and the feeling of belonging. The audience being both from inside and out of the clubs involved I hope they see themselves and recognise that sense of belonging we mostly all crave.

I’m writing this as we potentially crash out of the EU as a nation,something that for better or worse we have been part of for many years. For me personally I feel a serious sense of loss and fear for future as we become collectively more insular and inward looking,it does not feel like progress at all.That sense of belonging to a wider more internationalist society as been with me most of my life,the thought of no longer belonging in the eyes of many fills me with great sadness.