Daily Beauty

For this project, because of a lack of transportation in the last week I've only been able to stay within my local commmunity, including my own house and backyard, I walked to the neighbouring suburb, which includes my grandmother's house and I've been taking photos continuously of my near one month old niece. What I'm doing with these photographs is trying to show my daily life and my daily community, but not by taking dead pan photographs of everything I see, I've tried to select photographs that show the beauty in these places that I see because of how close I am to them. None of these images have been edited at all, at this point in time in my photography I'm trying to go back to the movement of Straight Photography, despite using manipulations on images while I have been studying at university. Also at university, we've had it drilled into our heads to not do cliched, purely beautiful images, which is partly what I love. I don't want to make completely arty photographs that you need a degree in philosophy to understand, I want to make absolutely beautiful photographs that everyone no matter what can appreciate.