What is it?
Masterplan is a five-year project between the years of 2016 – 2020, and intends to use photography, film and archival research to tell the story of Jersey’s economic growth and development. This would allow a visual record to Jersey’s modernization in the finance industry, and to do this is collaborating with photographers Martin Toft and Gareth Syvret within Archisle – The Jersey Contemporary Photography Program, run by Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive. The project wishes to emphasize the importance of the finance sector compared to the post-war state, using the Photographic Archive it brings up documentaries of St Helier’s landscape, social and business histories in both the 19th and 20th century, with huge development in landscapes, infrastructure and society during times of post-war, all seen through the visual narrative of photographs.
Above is the image of how the finance sector at the waterfront is meant to look after completion, Masterplan wishes to look at this development and the changes that occur throughout the process whilst identifying what makes the area unique to Jersey and its industry.
This image represents the potential changes that will occur in certain areas, whilst also showing points of historical interest to the public which may cause debate. By doing so it provides an insight into how St Helier wishes to change over time, this gives us an idea on how we want to go about photographing these areas, as the technique of contrast could be used to identify changed features.