it really is

This series was inspired by poverty in the UK and how it can effect people growing up under the consequences of it. The portraits attempt to combine both environment and figure to express the idea and cause of a deficiency in all things I believe poverty can lead to; a lack of education, health and behaviour.

The structured composition in each photograph brings a lack of realism and focus on the frame of the photograph to impose a feeling of isolation, enclosure and inability to escape.

The name of each photograph is named after its surroundings to disguise the idea that the portraits are about the figure. In essence, the irony of this expresses the idea that children are ignored by society.