For my final outcomes from this project I have managed to produce 8 presentations of my favourite photographs along with a carefully designed photo book. To begin my project I started with the idea of spreading environmental awareness through photography. This type of conversational photography has been used to advocate environmental issues since the 1860’s and is a powerful medium for influencing positive change. When I started I used the rough headline of ‘environmental awareness’ but as my work has progressed over the exam it has been changed to the preferred title of ‘Pollution in the Channel islands’.

As the world’s pollution issues are already vastly documented and recorded there was a large amount of artistic and written research done around this topic which helped to inform and inspire my shoots. The main inspirations I have had for my project are photographers who have looked at pollution from an artistic and symbolic view-point. These include Gregg Segal and his ‘7 days of garbage’ project, Steven Hirsch with his work; ‘Off The Water’s Surface’, and Goussin and Hortense’s beautiful examples of ocean pollution. By researching these photographers I was influenced to make many of my final results a beautiful mixture of symbolic and abstract representations. The specification for this years exam was to create a sustained exploration of our given word, ‘environment’, resulting in multiple final presentations. Over the time we were given I have created beautiful symbolic, abstract and documentary images portraying environmental issues as well as inspiring messages and visual encouragements for positive change. By demonstrating a mixture of photography techniques I have really expanded my skill set and provided my viewer with an engaging and interesting project. This exam project, in my opinion, has been very successful, one because I have found my chosen subject so inspiring and informative, and two because I made sure I used careful planning and organisational skills for each one of my shoots. Overall I am really happy with my photo book result as well as the final layout of my 22 favourite images, paired and presented as 8 designs.

Above I have added a few images depicting my finished final presentations of my favourite outcomes from this project. I love my use of window mounts, story boards, triptychs and diptychs to present my work and feel as my outcomes really extenuate the meaning behind my project. What I think makes this collection so successful is that each set of images displays a different message and is presented using a different type of photographic practice. This variety has produced a really interesting and intriguing project, with something that hopefully every one can emotionally respond to. My favourite outcomes above are my large collection of waste to energy images because of the precise way I managed to fit each one together in a story board. As well as this I also really like my documentary plastic pollution outcomes on the bottom left as the double window mount technique has produced very professional and clean looking outcomes.

Online Book Preview: http://www.blurb.co.uk/books/7926770-pollution-in-the-channel-islands

Lastly I have presented my final photo book layout as an online link and contact sheet above whilst I wait for the physical copy to come down in the post. The reason I decided to create a book as well as many final prints is because I think it is a really nice way to bring all my outcomes together, showing my journey as well as thoroughly getting across some environmental awareness. I love the layout I have created above as I have really showed how each shoot works together, getting across the same message in different ways. The facts that I have gathered from my previous research throughout this project give some amazing context to my images as well as emphsising there meaning and the harsh truth of our environmental impact.