Looking in the past- The photo as a memory

In these sets of images, I have used Annie Leibovitz as research to help me understand how to construct an effective portrait photograph. I recently visited her exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery. In this exhibition was a powerful set of photographs that followed her life and her closest friend, Susan. Susan was diagnosed with cancer. With this in mind, the whole perception of these photos change, and you feel a powerful sense of emotion. In my images, I tried to capture my friends, who I had left behind, as I am now in Nottingham and I tried to follow the same ideas as Leibovitz. Hopefully the viewer will feel this sense of emotion in these images, I also thought carefully about the construction and set up of these images.