Here is my response to the Typology Study. I walked around the village in St Aubins taking photos of different doors that I walked past. Once I collected a range of different doors, I cropped each image so that they were all about the same size. I then placed all the images in a collage to show. I am happy with my result, and I now understand more about what Typology is about.
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
Best Photographs
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.
The Alliance Française is the leading cultural network worldwide, with 1,040 establishments in 136 countries on all five continents. Each year, 450,000 people, of all ages, attend Alliances Françaises to learn French and more than 6 million people participate in their cultural activities. The franchise has organised a photography competition every year since 2010. The competition aims to highlight the “richness and diversity” of the 800 Alliances Franchise around the world, and to give amateur photographers the opportunity to display their work to a large audience. The theme selected by the franchise was ‘Climate – State of Emergency’.
The candidates were invited to submit photos which captured the questions posed by the way climate is changing, where they live or the effects resulting from the changes.
We went to The Jersey Arts Centre on the 10.01.17 to view the final photos selected by the franchise and chose my favourite images out of the 44 on show.
These are my favourite images from the exhibition, along with the name of photograph and the photographer:
Yunjie Zang is an amateur photographer and is 29 years old. He is a teacher and does photography in his spare time.
What I like about this image:
David Porteus is a 47 year old amateur photographer, employed at Melbourne Arts Centre in Australia.
What I like about these images:
Marc Lamey is a 54 year old and is an engineer
What I like about this photo:
Somennath Mukhopadhyay is a 47 year old amateur photographer and is a teacher from India.
What I like about these images:
Dipayan Bhar is a 25 year old amateur photographer employed in a service sector in Bengal, India. He is also a member of National Geographic and takes images to submit to the program.
What I like abut this image:
A 36 year old amateur photographer, IT engineer from India.
What I like about this image:
Oniblis Jose Gonzalez Urbaez is an amateur photographer from Venezuela.
What I like about this image:
Susan Whitbread is a 63 year old amateur photographer and is a civil servant from Australia.
What I like about this image:
Fahran Saud Al Shammeri is an amateur photographer, 40 years of age and is a teacher in Saudi Arabia.
What I like about these images:
My Favourite Image:
What I like about this image is the story it tells and the message it perhaps trying to portray and it had an immediate impact on me. It seems very mysterious but there are several points in the photo that us as the audience can pick up on. It is a great example of our changing world and the different lifestyles/cultures we are surrounded by – fitting in perfectly with the theme of climate change and the affects in has on us.
I also really like that it is in black and white because it may not have had the same effect if it was in colour. You can argue that the evident deprived children in the photo see the world in black and white and may not have any vibrancy in their lives as they live in the conditions we get only a preview of in the image.
I believe the photographer, Dipayan Bhar has captured an told the story well of the lives of the kids who live in such poor conditions. Our eyes are drawn to a range of aspects within the photograph. The main, in my opinion, being the little child, thigh deep in dirty water drinking from a jug of this water. The pole down the middle of the scene splits the photo in two and makes it more easily digestible for the viewers. We can then see the rest of his family sitting on a balcony who can only sit their and allow the boy to drink the water as it’s their only option.
The overall mood and atmosphere of the image is very grim and miserable and we get a feel for how the subjects are living, which I believe is what Bhar wanted to achieve.
To the right of the image, we can see what looks like a Bollywood film poster; immediately representing two sides to the area. What we originally thought was deprived, we suddenly get a sense of class as this film poster is displayed next to such poor conditions. It provides us with a contrast.
I believe Bhar would have wished to prioritise the message received from this photo over the actual quality of the image and any editing techniques, which is why he submitted it to this amateur competition.
In the course of daily life, individuals and organizations create and keep information about their personal and business activities. Archivists identify and preserve these documents of lasting value.
These records — and the places they are kept — are called “archives.” Archival records take many forms, including correspondence, diaries, financial and legal documents, photographs, and moving image and sound recordings. All state governments as well as many local governments, schools, businesses, libraries, and historical societies, maintain archives.
The images above are Archival Images from iconic areas of Jersey…and these areas have changed over time.
Jersey Archives: Since 1993 Jersey Archive has collected over 300,000 archival records and it is the island’s national repository holding archival material from public institutions as well as private businesses and individuals. To visit click here
Jersey Archive can offer guidance, information and documents that relate to all aspects of the Island’s History. It also holds the collections of the Channel Islands Family History Society.
Societe Jersiaise: Photographic archive of 80,000 images dating from the mid-1840s to the present day. 35,000 historical images in the Photographic Archive are searchable online here.
Societe Jersiaise also have an extensive library with access to may publications and records relating to the island’s history, identity and geography. Click here
Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, hosted by the Société Jersiaise aims to promote contemporary photography through an ongoing programme of exhibitions, education and commissions.
The Archisle project connects photographic archives, contemporary practice and experiences of island cultures and geographies through the development of a space for creative discourse between Jersey and international practitioners.
