My idea

I wanted to find two people who had a close connection an I wanted some way to show this strong bond through the image so I began thinking of people I knew who could fit the brief. I wanted to try something different to what I usually do when photographing people which is usually serious, natural work, this time I wanted to try out a lighter, funnier way of portraying the people, I wanted a light hearted maybe slightly tongue and cheek story. I didn't want to work too close to my comfort zone and pick people that I myself have a really strong connection with because I wanted to challenge my confidence and see if I could work with people that I wouldn't normally work with yet as my thinking process went by I immediately fell in love with the idea of photographing two of my housemates, the reason behind the choice of people outweighed the greed I had to challenge myself by taking a photo of people I wasn't used to so I went with my instinct and went ahead with using my housemates.

I choice these two people because of how they met, to me it's an interesting and funny story. In the first year of university, Adam, one of my housemates and good friends lived in student accommodation and Andrew, me other housemate lived in the same house as him, on the same floor, in the room next door yet despite living so close to each other, they never spoke, not one word until one day me and Adam went to the local pub, not knowing Andrew was already there. Andrew was quite drunk to say the least, he was stumbling a little. Me and Adam were sat at the bar just chatting when all of a sudden someone drunkenly falls onto Adam, it was Andrew and that was how they officially 'met'. I love this story because the way they met solidifies the stereotypical student in them. They both knew who each other were yet never spoke until Andrew fell into Adam. It got me interested in how little factors throughout the day influence our next steps in life, if Andrew hadn't have bought that last drink he might not have been drunk enough to fall into Adam, if Adam had chose to sit in the seat I chose to sit in then he wouldn't have become an accidental target, if I hadn't suggested going to the pub that day then none of that would have happened. Andrew, Adam and I, plus another housemate, Emily, are very close now and it's all because Andrew fell into Adam when he was drunk, if he hadn't have done that then we wouldn't have mingled, become friends and they wouldn't have suggested sharing a house with us this year. I find it to be a bizarre situation therefore interesting to photograph.

I didn't know how I wanted to capture my two housemates but I did know I wanted the story of how they met to be told, this for me was the priority because it's the interesting part. I also wanted their strong bond to be captured in some way so as of this point it was up to me to draft a few ideas down and see which I felt to fit my view the most.