For my Final Major Project in Commercial Photography, I decided to do a project on the brand Supreme. This project was more than a University project to me as the streetwear skateboading brand Supreme plays an important role in the development of myself and my interest towards streetwear and fashion back in 2017. My aim for this project was to highlight Youth Culture through skateboarding and Supreme. I got into learning skateboarding towards late 2017 as part of me loves learning new things and I still do which is a trait that I love about myself. I have always had an interest towards Hip-hop music since I was very young when I used to watch music videos on the TV Channel KISS if you know you know with my elder sister, so what better brand to pick than Supreme to showcase myself as a person. My history with the brand dates back in 2017 when the "HYPEBEAST" era happened which plummeted Supreme into the mainstream as well as them collaborating with the luxury brand Louis Vuitton to make a couple of pieces which resold for an enormous amount of money by scalpers. I was watching a lot of YouTube at the time, so I was about 16 years old but the YouTuber that I was obsessed with at the time is called Ricegum who made videos wearing the brand which intrigued an interest out of me. This was the first time I ever had the slightest interest towards fashion and how clothes look on the body, as before I just wore what my parents gave me.. Embarrassingly I happened to become a Hypebeast myself although I was too broke to buy any of the clothing until now as I had a reason to buy clothing but I don't regret that period of my life at all as it gave me a bunch of fond memories that I would always remember with my friends at the time. Funnily enough the photo of me in this body of work that has the red Supreme bag in it was, one that I bought during that period which is why I picked this brand to focus on for my Final Major Project as in a way it encompasses who I am as person. That very same skateboard you see the model doing an ollie on as well as my model Blake who is holding the skateboard is the very first skateboard I purchased when I was working for £3 an hour at a restaurant job which I got fired for wearing earrings. 2017 was also the year I started studying photography in College, so in a way this is a full circle moment of my journey as a photographer although I started developing a passion for photography at the start of second year in University when I learnt to edit properly on Capture One and did my project on "Window Shopping", I had realised that I might actually be good at this. I love incorporating my interests I had as a child into my own work for everyone to see as it is a way for to put a bit of my personality out there as I think I am perceived as weird by the people around me. I am just horrible at communicating my thoughts into speech which is something I am actively trying to improve upon. This was very much a project to make my younger self feel proud of where I am today despite the constant shortcomings that life handed towards me with growing up with a rare physical disability (Fairbanks Disease) which caused me to be absent from school quite often as I would feel constant pain in my legs and feet when I would wake up in the morning to the point of where I was incapable of walking, I presumed that I had Insomnia growing up however I didn't know that I also have Autism and ADHD which I found out at October 2025 which was quite shocking to find out after being alive for 24 years and discovering quite recently that I happen to have Avoidant Personality Disorder but it explained all my issues that I had growing up with how much I struggled to communicate as well as constant death eyes of judged and being made fun of for simply walking as well as being physically abused quite often which didn't help in the slightest lmao. Thankfully I learned all that I know through gaming and watching anime growing up as well as a certain Minecraft Prison server that taught me the basics of life as well as economics as I wasn't able to attend school.. I honestly learnt more about life through my own learning rather than school what school taught me. Young Ibi would be proud of present me with how I managed to get through life with the constant knocking down with everything that gets thrown at me but regardless I still have much to learn but I enjoy learning so much about things I don't know as it gives me dopamine rush and I also find random topics to be very interesting, I am legit chronically online to the point where I have an encyclopaedia of the entire Twitter, YouTube and Twitch lore throughout the years as well as random facts all in my head as I find it to be quite fascinating to be knowledgeable on different fields. I went on a tangent there but that's me and a part of my life :) Thanks to everyone who helped out with this passion project of mine, I appreciate you so much :) I also did a 6-minute video for this project which still needs to get polished and also thanks to everyone who accepts me for me without any judgment. To those of you who happened to read all of this, welcome to my life and thank you for giving me your time, if not I had fun writing all this and looking back into the past, so technically I win regardless :) Thanks for reading/listening to this spontanous essay I wrote about myself and this project. I appreciate you so much. Yours Sincerely, A mentally ill individual who lacks social skills to communicate efficiently coherrently, AKA Ibi, AKA Ibixim, AKA Ibpho, AKA Ibrahim Miah :)