Location plays a big role in human lives today: and with the rise of technology, it has become more powerful and useful.

The fact is that humans depend on technology more than we know. This brings me to google maps and the significance of “one's” location. Google maps allows you to pin yourself in the space that you are standing in. It allows you to find places and spaces of interest to you.

The Christmas market in Market Square has caught my eye and grabbed many a person's interest. When I went on a Sunday it was packed, to my surprise. I almost didn’t know where I was. I was trying to be aware to the best of my ability while I was there.

The only type of documentation I did was photograph the area or space that I was standing in, the people and (when I thought it was appropriate, I asked for permission), especially when I discovered little children would be photographed.

I also photographed the place, which was Market Square and its famous clock tower, which I didn’t use for my final.

The time stamps and the date that I was there can all be seen on my camera. For this project I will be using modern technology such as google maps and maps of Nottingham to elaborate my work further and help the viewer grasp what I am trying to show, which is my location and how significant it is.

As a tourist and an international student from Sri Lanka, I looked at the Christmas Market from an outsider’s persecutive; as we don’t get markets like this back home.

This is the reason why I created a few multiple exposures to express my work. I wanted to show that as a tourist I am seeing multiple things at the same time.

Personally, I cannot absorb all of it in one night: so, this was my way of absorbing it all, and hopefully, my viewers can do as well.

Since I was executing the topic “People, Spaces and Places in Nottingham”, specifically focusing on the Christmas Market at Market Square in 2022, I decided to give my subjects nouns to describe them. Women and child, child, woman, man, men, boys, girls, boy and man etc.

Going into this project I intended to make all my photographs neutral in colour. The reason I made my photographs black and white is because I felt that the colour was

distracting, and didn’t focus on the people within the spaces I was photographing them in.

I wanted to capture their facial expressions, reactions and actions while they were with their family and friends. I wanted to be as invisible as possible, so I didn’t ask of all of them whether I could take photographs, because if they knew I was photographing, they would have changed their actions, facial expressions and reactions to suit the photograph, which is not what I wanted, as I wanted my photographs to look natural and casual and unposed.