The Environmental Portrait

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Approach someone and ask to photograph them where they are - behind their market stall, outside their shop, sitting on their doorstep. Not a posed portrait in an empty space. Them, in their place, doing roughly what they were doing.
You're documenting a person and a world simultaneously. The environment tells half the story.
Watch for: backgrounds competing with faces. Strong context is good. Chaotic context is noise. Find the balance.
Any. Shoot at the natural light of the environment.
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