Definitions:
- The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
- The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.
After reviewing the title I started to come up with some initial ideas that I could incorporate into my exam. I began by noting down the first things that came to my mind when thinking about the title.
- Isolating something man made in nature / visa versa – it could be interesting to look at the way we can change the atmosphere of an environment by placing a foreign object in it (e.g. a shopping cart in a forest)
- Personal environments – it would be intriguing to create a project based on looking at my own or other people’s personal environments (where they feel safe / where they spend a lot of their time / where they perform their favourite hobbies ect).
- Manipulating images of environments to totally change how we perceive them – editing and manipulating images to change the general atmosphere of an environment could be interesting (e.g taking a picture of a playground, putting it in monochrome, blurring it to give a ghostly feel to the photo).
Photography style ideas:
- Using photography as a medium – some photographers these days now use photography in a sculptural sense (making installations with printed photographs).
- Documentary photography – allows to give a truthful, honest image on an environment.
- Abstract – that way we photograph something can completely change to atmosphere generally linked to a certain environment (focusing on a very small area of an environment to produce a creative representation of it).
Some photographers I could look at, relating to my initial ideas –Idris Khan, Stephanie Jung, Brno Del Zou.