Still Life - Idea (Documentary)

In the first lesson, for the first time, I thought of an idea of what I could shoot for this semi - assignment within the main overall project brief. The idea of cigarettes popped in my head for some reason, I don't smoke but know plenty of people who do and one of whom is my mam, therefore I would be able to do this idea fairly easily. I thought of doing this for 'Documentary Photography' as it will be documenting my mother's cigarettes as she smokes. She has quite a few times but has smoked since I can remember really. As we began research on the general topic (documentary) or your own idea if you had one, during lesson two people each told me of artists who had photographed cigarettes to some degree, both of whom I had heard of. One was Irving Penn who I found out about during the beginning of first year and the second was Rankin, who I had previously found before Uni.