Term Three- Self Negotiated Project

For my final term of my first year studying BA Hons Photography, we have been asked to produce work based around a self negotiated brief. As I am currently making plans to move out of the family home, I have decided I would like to explore and document the area I have lived in for over 20 years, my safe haven, my home. Many students leave their home at the beginning of their first year, and it isn't until they return home to visit family and friends that they notice the little things about their area that they miss, things they had never noticed until now, things that have changed. But for me, I had stayed in my hometown for my first year at university, and these changes are happening now, in the present, while I am still here. This got me thinking back to when I was younger, the places I was educated, the places I made friends and used to play. My hometown is now undergoing a complete reconstruction, with the council finally acting on plans to build a tram right through where I live, and these exact places I remember playing so happily as a child. I feel it is important to document this as it is a huge, ongoing controversial debate throughout my neighborhood. I want to look into the notion of change and growth, while it is happening, rather than when it already has...