Romanticism heavily focuses on emotion and more of classical sides of beauty rather than “ugly” and “industrial” areas. It originated in response to the industrial revolution in England where people where fleeing the beautiful countryside and emigrated to the cities which spoiled the landscape. Romanticism can often be exaggerated by the artist whose interpretation and feelings towards beauty are expressed. Nowadays romanticism is focuses more on beauty of the landscape.
On Thursday the 12th January I visited the Jersey Arts Centre. The Arts centre focuses on promoting and encourage the development of art. Their website says they aim to:
The exhibition, known as: “Climate State of Emergency” in association with Alliance Francaise builds upon the theme of how climate change impacts different people in different parts of the world. The exhibition was responding to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
The exhibition portrays the serious dangers of climate change exposing the level of truth despite endless politicians burying and therefore prolonging the issues that have already arisen. This exhibition successfully points out to us of ho climate change has got so bad that it cannot be an issue that is simply swept under the rug for another 50 years. In this sense it is somewhat a form of protest for the lack of things being done with the issue and how it harms everyone on an international level.
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Today, I experimented further with the New Topographics movement by updating my knowledge and understanding of it; refreshing my memory then taking a trip out in the playground/car park of the school as I was aware this had many opportunities for me to capture the ugliness and dullness of the mess which is hidden behind the school but attempt to find it’s indirect, inner beauty.
This shoot focuses particularly on the nuts on bolts of New Topography – capturing imagery of the man-altered landscapes of our world – landscapes which have no direct beauty or meaning to them, including objects like bins, glass bottles, broken fences and graffiti. I wanted it to be the simplicity of the each image, in the way it was taken that provokes the thoughts of viewers.
I took all of these images of my iPhone 6S and what I wished to achieve was a photographic contrast between natural landscapes and man-made features obstructing the beauty of them or perhaps vice versa – the natural landscapes adding another perspective to the inanimate, lifeless man-made features. The not-so-great quality of my iPhone camera compared to that of a professional Canon adds to the effect of dullness that is received on this windy and miserable day.
My Romanticism photography heavily includes photographs which include emotions within them, capturing a strong sense of beauty and awe. To do this, I have incorporated a sense of abstraction by building upon certain techniques and compositions such as: striking light forms, colour, pattern, texture, reflections, contrasting emotions, patterns and shadows. By doing this my photographs not only capture beauty, they almost appear slightly unrealistic, unusual and exaggerated in terms of the raw essence of the landscape strongly embedding in elements of Abstraction.
Furthermore, I took some panoramic photographs of the landscape. I believe I successfully captured the area around me and of the area far away and in the distance depicting beautiful landscapes in various locations
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On the way to the Art Center for the Climate Change Exhibition, we had to take twelve images of the Landscape that we walked past. As we were walking through town the landscape that we saw was Urban Landscape, and therefore I mostly decided to capture the buildings. Here are the twelve images I took.
Here are a few edits of the images that I took on the certain walk. I mostly chose to edit them into black and white because it defines the shadows within the image, and helps highlight the light areas.
On Tuesday 10th January, we visited the Art Center where they were having an exhibition of an International Photo Competition from 2015. The exhibition was done by the Alliance Francaise Foundation. It contained a selection of images from varies photographers that submitted work into the competition. Each photographer looked at a very different concept of climate change.
An amateur photographer called Antonio Ponciano, who is 27 years old, focused on an aspect based on the New Topography ideas. He captured the realistic and true view of climate change, and how it effected the lives of people. He took both these images in Peru. I really like the photos by Antonio, because he has not manipulated the situation, he has simply captured the truth of what climate change has done. I also really like how he has edited the images into black and white, because it makes the tones stand out more, and creates more contrast.
An Amateur photographer called Somennah Mukhopadyay, aged 47 years old, used juxtaposition in his chosen images. Like Antonio, Somennah focus’ on the way climate change effects the lives of people. However instead of focusing on Peru, he has chosen India. The main connotations when I think of India is bright colours, and this goes with the style of this photographer because his images are full of colour. The first image from Somennah’s selection shows drought created by climate change. The second image shows the flooding caused by climate change. They are both very different aspects, but both show the problems that many people face.
A photographer called Rodrigo Eduardo Marta Moctezuma, aged 35 years old, submitted photos for the competition taken in Mexico. Unlike the other two photographers who focused on the effect Climate change has on people, he chose to focus more on the Landscape. Rodrigo’s style is very romanticized with the warm colours of the orange sunset being in the focus of the images. Both these images are very slimier with the flat landscape in the foreground, and the mountains in the background. It creates a sense of depth. Although the images are in the style of Romanticism, neither of the photos are full of colour, which is why I like these images. The sky and the ground are in equal proportions, which creates a natural feel to the photos. Both these photos focus on the drought caused by climate change. and how it effects the landscape.
The image below is my favorite image from the Exhibition because it is different from all the other images. The other photos in the gallery had a very different perception and view of what they were capturing, where as, with this image, the photographer is looking downwards towards the child. This creates a completely separate way of how you look at the photo. It suddenly creates a dimension that helps you believe you were there when the image was taken. It makes the image more realistic, and with the bright colors and the expression seen on the child’s face, it makes the image have personality.
