The final ideas for my project are coming together. It has taken a while because I was quite experimental. Whether my work looks ambitious and original or not, it has been a journey and a big step for me because I pushed myself into the realms of what I would call street photography. I was made to take photos of people during the diagnostic stage and I think my ideas lead on from there. It's important to me because I've developed in this area which I neglected for so long though fear.
So either way, Saul Leiter has been a big influence on my work during the past few months but after seeing Friedrich Seidenstücker in Berlin, I appreciated the aesthetics of black and white a lot more, shot a black and white roll of film and have started to make prints (which I hadn't done in over a year). I'm just getting the hang of getting the right exposure so my final resolved images will be black and white film prints, I think. The subject matter got a bit woolly because I was focusing on the architectural and also people in the city while trying to abstract it and it all got very messy but recently I've tried to focus on very important bits of information and telling as much of a story as I can through one frame- primarily being a voyeur into someone's life (picking out individuals in a busy city) while also showing the environment they are in. I find the best way to do this is through reflections, condensation on windows etc, and this gives the abstraction that I was always looking for after seeing Saul Leiter's work. I need to put everything I have learned into one more roll of film and make fantastic prints.

the following photos are some of my scans of my black and white prints.