Anthony Kurtz is a German environmental photographer that lives in Berlin. Most of his work is based in San Francisco and in African countries like Senegal. He specialises in environmental portraiture and strives to create beautiful and unexpected photographs of people and the spaces they occupy. Combining both natural light and studio strobes, Anthony sculpts light to create a mood, an atmosphere, a photograph that tells a story and, hopefully, sparks curiosity. Similar to Goldblatt many of Anthony’s pictures are very strong and tell a story about each individual that has been captured in his images. I particularly like the clarity and quality of his images. This is because they are very sharp and make the detail of the images very clear. Lastly I like the work that Kurtz has done because many of the models in his shoots are kinky looking, for example some of his images show people wearing strange glasses or having strange props, such as a mouse.

The video attached below is one I created, documenting my friend Zac and a trick he had attempted on the day I also did a photo shoot with him. I recorded every attempt that he had tried on the day and edited this in a montage style, that became almost documentary. As if I were filming a day in the life.

Once edited together, I added a voice over of Zac explaining his journey of the trick itself. Ultimately I wanted minimal editing, as I was trying to focus of the battle that Zac encountered trying this trick.

Below documents a series of skateboarding clips, of myself, shot over a period of two weeks, skating within one area of St Helier. This footage was recorded during 2015, on a VCR camera, at a time where I was skating daily.

I decided to leave this footage completely unedited, in order to highlight what a day of skateboarding consisted of for me.

I attempted to replicate the style of video that Ben Gore had filmed for, I focus more on the footage itself, because of the filming, as I believe it really encapsulates the area as well as myself as a skateboarder.

My first shoot took place at St Catherine’s woods which is in my opinion one of the best locations in Jersey to enjoy the environment around you. St Catherine’s woods is an area of woodland almost untouched by man. This made the location perfect for the images I have recorded below. The concept of the shoot was to show how man has become one with the woodland, my images showing the subjects almost blending in to the landscape. In my opinion this gives the landscapes more meaning because in this world we are the ones who preserve the nature but we are also the ones who destroy it, but in my images the subjects are just becoming one with the nature. I also believe the images show the natural beauty of the island we live on, but the use of the black and white could be a conceptual idea that we live in a dark time besides the natural beauty.

 This first image was taken on the small dam at the start of St Catherines woods. The two subjects are walking along the wall to take a picture across the lake. I like this image because the contrast works well with the great amount of natural light being used. The light allows the water to reflect the trees around the lake giving the image more texture. I have made sure that the wall the subjects are walking on is in the centre of the image so that I can use the rule of three to make a better image. For example in this image the subjects in the middle, the lake on the left and the right side of the dam and the trees on the right.  The concept of this image in particular is to show how what man has built divides the natural beauty from what we have created.  This is my favorite image from the shoot (1). The reason I believe this is the strongest image is because the environmental portrait has a strong composition. The natural light causes a blurred reflection of the subject in the water which created the effect of him blending in with the reflections of the trees around him. In the photo the subject is taking an image of the environment around him because he believes it is a particularly sublime location to be in.