Project ideas

I'm currently wondering how my photos will look - what do I want to take photos of? Obviously they will relate to my topic of child innocence, but I could go in a few directions. Do I take photographs of things that represent child innocence to me, such as the red Berol pens (image below) everyone used at primary school, school book bags, toys, games, etc? Or do I take photos of actual children, more portraiture? 

When searching 'child innocence' on Google images, the majority of photos are of mid-shot portraits of children, either shown in an angelic-like pose or playing/laughing. This made me think about conventions of child photography - of course every parent wants photos of their children to be 'nice', pretty and show off-able - but what if they weren't? Or, what if they were different?

I'm not keen on photographing products that relate to child innocence. I don't think it's personable, nor do I think it would make an interesting project. I'd be afraid that it would turn into product photography as opposed to illustrating the ideas behind child innocence. Therefore, I think I will stick with my idea of taking portraiture photos of children. However, like my past project 'Family Focus', which included untraditional photos of my family (which hence made a family portrait as a whole project), I like to focus on the untraditional, blurring the lines of convention, as I don't feel there should be any (to an extent!) 'rules' in photography.

So, as an initial idea, I aim to produce a series of portraiture photographs that represent child innocence in an untraditional way.