I started to think about what aspects I wanted to focus on in relation to the media; I realized I didn’t want to go into a broad area of the subject and I narrowed it down to the ones most affected in conflict; the children and their uncertain future as refugees. I started to compare facial expressions with some of my friends photos then (as kids) and now to see if the same facial expressions captured were ‘less honest’ looking or influenced by the life events that occurred after the first photo was taken. 

The differences in western and middle eastern childhoods however was a factor I had to keep in mind as both could not be more different from one another; however I was focusing on a child’s honesty and innocence in general.