Where i began!!!

I've got a series of environmental portraits that I'm doing with a working title called 'Normal' that started off completely different.

I started taking pictures of old African Americans on there porches, outside of there homes, as well as the actual neighborhoods they lived in just to examine something....

but i never really figured out what that something was...just found myself really pointing the finger at a class of people that 'looked' poor, and that's not what i wanted


I wanted a new set of imagery, but i just found myself taking new pictures of old imagery if that makes sense.....


Tell me what you think, should i continue taking these types of pictures?why?

here are a few: