Styles of Photography: Environmental Portrait

Environmental Portrait

The style of environmental portraiture is when the subject of the shot is captured in their "natural" environment. This is quite commonly shows through a person being photographed in a place relating to their career or hobby. 

The common definition of environmental portraiture is making a portrait that's executed in the subject's living, working or playing environment and illuminates their life and surroundings. By photographing a person in their natural surrounding  instead of an impersonal studio, the theory is that you can more effectively capture the essence of a subject's personality, rather than just a mere likeness. (x)

A photographer who is very skilled in the task of environmental portraiture is Jonathan Bielaski. 

He also has an open project - For The Love Of It... for people to apply to have their environmental portraits taken.