The site that the Liberty Bus station is now built on.Brainstorm of the future of St. Helier
In my eyes, St. Helier is moving in a money-orientated forward movement. It is taking huge risks from investments such as the international finance center, which is likely to pay off well for Jersey. These investments are mostly in the financial sector and in living complexes, which is great for parts of Jersey, but the future of St. Helier is not offering much for Jersey as a community. To me, Jersey is not investing in the tourism side enough and is letting attractions, for both visitors and residents of the Island, to fall to ruins.
One example of the consequences of Jersey’s ignorance of the tourism sector is the Fort Regent. As seen below, the Fort Regent was once a place for families to go and spend days out together and occupy themselves with a variety of activities, whereas now the swimming pool has become derelict and there is little to attract visitors to the site. The Fort Regent pool remains abandoned and money is being spent on increasing the strength of an already strong financial sector in Jersey rather than meeting the needs of Jersey as a community.
I believe that Jersey is trying to replicate a smaller scale city and will eventually start eating away at the few parks in St. Helier, taking away from the community of Jersey in order to boost their finance sector so it seems that Jersey is not diversifying its investments enough.
The fort offered a wide variety of activities for the community before it was left to fall apart.
According to definition a masterplan is a comprehensive plan of action. It is a look into the future plans of a certain area such as a town, city, country or island, in this case Saint Helier in Jersey, and how this specific place can be improved and worked upon in order to make it a better place for its people.
In this specific case looking at the masterplan revolving around the future of the parish physical advancements and work is currently being done such as the construction of Jersey’s new international finance centre and the construction of new accommodation complexes on the waterfront, amongst many other changes. Two main areas of Saint Helier that are currently being looked at specifically above others are The Waterfront and Gas Place, these two areas are undergoing intense planning in the near future, as I said before amongst various other aspects of the ‘Masterplan.’
The development of the new international finance centre is very significant to the future developments that are occurring in St Helier, due to the rapid growth in the finance industry, specifically on the island. Here are some sector statistics from 2016 which show the true extent to which the finance sector is becoming so significant locally…
Overall my views on the future of St Helier, as someone who has lived in the parish my whole life and works in the town of St Helier, are that I am very unsure and intrigued to see how the changes implemented over the years to come will develop the parish either in a positive or negative way, as in some ways I believe that the parish is moving forward in a good way but in other ways it could definitely be approached in an alternative nature. And most importantly of all how it will affect the people of St Helier.
Until the end of the 18th century, the town consisted chiefly of a string of houses, shops and warehouses stretching along the coastal dunes either side of the Church of St Helier and the adjacent marketplaceThe Royal Square was also the scene of the Battle of Jersey on 6 January 1781, the last attempt by French forces to seize Jersey. George II gave £200 towards the construction of a new harbour – previously boats would be beached on a falling tide and unloaded by cart across the sand.
19th century
Military roads linking coastal defences around the island with St Helier harbour allowed farmers to exploit Jersey’s temperate micro-climate and use new fast sailing ships and then steamships to get their produce to the markets of London and Paris before the competition. This was the start of Jersey’s agricultural prosperity in the 19th century.
20th Century
In the 1960s, income from the Jersey States Lottery was used to excavate a two-lane road tunnel under Fort Regent, enabling traffic from the harbour to the east coast towns to avoid a torturous route around the fort. About the same time, the Fort was converted into a major leisure facility and was linked to the town centre by a gondola cableway – closed and demolished in the 1990s.
21th Century
Liberation Square is now a focal point in the town – the former terminus of the Jersey Railway housed the Jersey Tourism office until 2007
I strongly believe that St Helier is moving forwards with intent to make money with such ongoing projects like the international finance center. Although this is likely to benefit Jersey, these money making investments are orientated towards the finance sector and living complexes which does not positively impact Jersey as a community. Also, the tourism industry is clearly ignored buy the development teams of St Helier with many attractions collapsing and little investment in new leisure facilities.
A clear example of this is how Fort Regent was once considered a hot spot for tourists to the island as well as a great place for locals to spend the day. It provided weather proof activities for all ages but since the 90’s the attraction has been underfunded resulting in the closure of some of its main attractions such as the swimming pool and cable carts. The fact that the fort has continued to go downhill despite the plans to redevelop the whole of St Helier shows that the States of Jersey have lost interest in the islands tourism industry and providing attractions to meet the demands of locals.
In my opinion the future of St Helier should be surrounding a modernization approach with the belief that new types of buildings will increase the high demanding market for finance. Modern buildings such as high-rises are needed in order to move St Helier from being a town into a city which in my opinion would benefit Jersey as it will gives a chaotic atmosphere to which can and could not be found anywhere else. However this does not mean the demolishing of historical buildings but it will enhance their presence with the contrast between the past and present which shows the movement and development within Jersey.
Week 1: 11 – 17 June Tuesday 12 June Societe Jersiaise – all day
Presentations, inspirations and workshop on exploring St Helier and looking at narrative using images in the collection of Percival Dunham
Tuesday 12 June Societe Jersiaise – all day
Presentations, inspirations and workshop on exploring St Helier and looking at narrative using images in the collection of Percival Dunham.
Blog: Produce a number of blog post that illustrate your knowledge and understanding. Use images , video and references to hyperlinks from sources used
Describe your own view, feelings and vision for how you see the Future of St Helier.
Define what a Masterplan is how it has influenced the development and planning of St Helier.
Provide a brief history of St Helier and research the specific area of town that you have selected.
Independent Study: Artists References/ Visual Inspiration. Research the Photo-Archive and select at least one photographer from the list provided that reference you chosen areas of study. Select at least one contemporary photographer that provides visual inspiration for your own shoots.
Photo-Archive
Dunham, Percy
Baudoux, Ernest
Smith, Albert
Henry Mullins
Produce a mood board with a selection of images and write an overview of their work, why you have chosen them and how it may help develop your own ideas and shoots for your project.
Select at least one image from each photographer and analyse in depth using methodology of DESCRIBE – INTERPRET – EVALUATE – CONTEXTUALISE.
Make a detailed shooting plan on how you intend to respond to your research and chosen area of St Helier
Extension task: Select a second photographer from the Photo-Archive and a second contemporary photographer and follow the above instructions.
Deadline: Mon 17 June
MASTERPLAN
A masterplan is a dynamic long-term planning document that provides a conceptual layout to guide future growth and development. Master planning is about making the connection between buildings, social settings, and their surrounding environments. A master plan includes analysis, recommendations, and proposals for a site’s population, economy, housing, transportation, community facilities, and land use. It is based on public input, surveys, planning initiatives, existing development, physical characteristics, and social and economic conditions.
Review of the current Masterplan of the Waterfront
JERSEY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
Jersey Development Company (JDC) is owned by the States of Jersey. It is responsible for completing the development of the St Helier Waterfront and regenerating States owned property no longer required for the delivery of public services.
You should : Explore their website and research a specific construction and build environment.
Here is a link to St Helier on Wikipedia which describes how the parish of is divided into 6 vingtaines for administrative purposes.
PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY// SITUATIONISM
We have explored Psycho-geaography as a concept and way of working before…during the AS Landscape Project. Many of you succeeded in developing strong ideas by following some of the ideas.
Psycho-geography is a hybrid of photography and geography that emphasizes playfulness and “drifting” around urban environments. It has links to the Situationist International.
Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.”
Another definition is “a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities… just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.
The originator of what became known as unitary urbanism, psychogeography, and the dérive was Ivan Chtcheglov, in his highly influential 1953 essay “Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau” (“Formulary for a New Urbanism”).
Marcus Desieno creates de-humanised landscape photography by hacking surveillance camera networks…but avoids privacy problems normally associated with urban and residential areas…
Typology means the study and interpretation of types and became associated with photography through the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose photographs taken over the course of 50 years of industrial structures; water towers, grain elevators, blast furnaces etc can be considered conceptual art. They were interested in the basic forms of these architectural structures and referred to them as ‘Anonyme Skulpturen’ (Anonymous Sculptures.)
The Becher’s were influenced by the work of earlier German photographers linked to the New Objectivity movement of the 1920s such as August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt and Albert-Renger-Patzsch.
August SanderKarl BlosfeldtAlbert-Renger-Patzsch
See also the work by Americans, William Christenberry and Ed Ruscha’s photographic works on types e.g. Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1964). Every building on the Sunset Strip (1966). Or Idris Khan‘s appropriation of Bechers’ images.
Ed Ruscha, 26 Gasoline Stations
William ChristenberryIdris Khan
See previous blog post for more guidelines and a photo-assignment.
Not least of the Bechers’ legacy is their lasting influence on subsequent generations of artists who use the photographic medium today, most notably the students taught by Bernd Becher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy between 1976 and 1996. Among his most renowned students are Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth.
Andreas GurkstThomas Struth born 1954 Ferdinand-von-Schill-Strasse, Dessau 1991 1991Thomas RuffCandia Hofer
From Germany, apart form the legacy of the Dusseldorf Kunst Akademie headed by the Becher’s another school of photography, the Werkstatt für Fotografie (Workshop for Photography) was founded in Berlin by Michael Schmidt who invited several leading American photographers, including William Eggleston and John Gossage, to teach there.
Michael Schmidt Waffenrufe
Responding to the wall between East and West in Berlin Schmidt produced a seminal work, Waffenrufe. Another body of work Berlin Nach 45 show empty streets of East Berlin made in the early hours as a quite testament to post war German architecture and urban city planning
Conceptual approaches to natural/ man-made environments
Tanja Deman is a Croation artist who was Archisle’s International Photographer-in-Residence in 2017.
Her art is inspired by her interest in the perception of space, physical and emotional connection to a place and her relationship to nature. Her works, incorporating photography, collage, video and public art, are evocative meditations on urban space and landscape. Observing recently built legacy or natural sites her work investigates the sociology of space and reflects dynamics hidden under the surface of both the built and natural environment.
Tanja Deman Fernweh
Fernweh series explores the concept of a modernist city through its extreme relations to the landscape. The images are placed on a blurred line between a past which reminds us of a future and a future which looks like a past. Scenes are referring to the modernist ideas and aspiration of a man conquering the natural wild land and subordinating it to the rational order, and the consequences of those aspirations, which switched into the longing for an escape from urban environments.
Tanja Deman Collected Narratives
Collective Narratives is a series staging a moment of contemplation of nature and built environment. Natural spectacles, framed in theatrical space are contemplated by an audience. These constructed images consolidate: geological formations; a projection of an urban environment; an arena; a deep chasm; a theatre and a crumbling slag-heap through a very active kind of watching.
While making the series ‘Collective Narratives’ I was interested in different types of spectatorship and architectural settings in which they are taking place. Moreover, the notion of a ritual in which a large group of people gathers and participates in order to experience something together by observing, intrigued me. I see these spaces for cultural and sports spectacles, as zones of pure potential, where the world must be rebuilt or re-imagined every time they are in use. Having liberated them from their utilitarian, commercial restrains, and the environments in which they were created, I allow them to cross the boundary of reality.
Together these scenes examine time and the strange modes of spectatorship attached to the inanimate world. A collective witnessing of phenomena that are usually experienced in private atmospheres.
Staged / Constructed Environments Land art is art that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making structures in the landscape using natural materials such as rocks or twigs
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty
Land art was part of the wider conceptual art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The most famous land art work is Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty of 1970, an earthwork built out into the Great Salt Lake in the USA. Though some artists such as Smithson used mechanical earth-moving equipment to make their artworks, other artists made minimal and temporary interventions in the landscape such as Richard Long who simply walked up and down until he had made a mark in the earth.
A Line in the Himalayas 1975, printed 2004 Richard Long born 1945 Presented by the artist (Building the Tate Collection) 2005 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T12035
Land art, which is also known as earth art, was usually documented in artworks using photographs and maps which the artist could exhibit in a gallery. Land artists also made land art in the gallery by bringing in material from the landscape and using it to create installations.
Parallel Stress 1970 Dennis Oppenheim
As well as Richard Long and Robert Smithson, key land artists include Hamish Fulton, Walter de Maria, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim and Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Hamish Fulton(born 1946) is a British walking artist. Since 1972 he has only made works based on the experience of walks.
Wind through the Pines 1985, 1991 Hamish Fulton born 1946
William Christenberry making typological studies of vernacular architecture traditional to the deep American South.
Christenberry also made little sculptures or 3D models of some of the buildings he had photographed
Photography and sculpture
Photographic installations which are site specific and 3-dimensional is very in vogue right now. In the exam paper starting point 4 is about artists exploring the material nature of a photographic image and the idea that photographs can be sculptural. Here are a few artists to explore
Felicity Hammond is an emerging artist who works across photography and installation. Fascinated by political contradictions within the urban landscape her work explores construction sites and obsolete built environments.
The Space Between @ ART ROTTERDAM 2017
The Space Between @ ART ROTTERDAM 2017
In specific works Hammond photographs digitally manipulated images from property developers’ billboards and brochures and prints them directly onto acrylic sheets which are then manipulated into unique sculptural objects. http://www.felicityhammond.com/
Lorenzo Venturi: Dalston Anatomy
Lorenzo Vitturi’s vibrant still lifes capture the threatened spirit of Dalston’s Ridley Road Market. Vitturi – who lives locally – feels compelled to capture its distinctive nature before it is gentrified beyond recognition. Vitturi arranges found objects and photographs them against backdrops of discarded market materials, in dynamic compositions. These are combined with street scenes and portraits of local characters to create a unique portrait of a soon to be extinct way of life.
His installation at the Gallery draws on the temporary structures of the market using raw materials, sculptural forms and photographs to explore ideas about creation, consumption and preservation.
Watch our exclusive interview with Lorenzo.
Lorenzo Vetturi
http://www.lorenzovitturi.com/
Mishka Henner, Trevor Paglen, Doug Rickard, Daniel Mayrit all use found images from the internet, Google earth and other satellites images as a way to ask questions and raise awareness about our environment, state operated security facilities, social and urban neighbour hoods, prostitution, and London’s business leaders of major international financial institutions.
Mishka Henner, Levelland Oil Field- Texas
US oil fields photographed by satellites orbiting Earth.
Mishka Henner Dutch Landscapes
Mishka Henner: I’m not the only one, 2015
Single channel video, 4:34 mins
Photographer Trevor Paglen has long made the advanced technology of global surveillance and military weaponry his subject. This year he has been nominated for the prestigious The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize which aims to reward a contemporary photographer of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution (exhibition or publication) to the medium of photography in Europe in the previous year. The Prize showcases new talents and highlights the best of international photography practice. It is one of the most prestigious prizes in the world of photography. Read more here
Trevor Paglen
Doug Rickard is a north American artist / photographer. He uses technologies such as Google Street View and YouTube to find images, which he then photographs on his monitor, to create series of work that have been published in books, exhibited in galleries.
Months after the London Riots in 2008 (at the beginning of the economical crash) the Metropolitan Police handed out leaflets depicting youngsters that presumably took part in riots. Images of very low quality, almost amateur, were embedded with unquestioned authority due both to the device used for taking the photographs and to the institution distributing those images. But in reality, what do we actually know about these people? We have no context or explanation of the facts, but we almost inadvertently assume their guilt because they have been ‘caught on CCTV’.
In his awarding book: You Haven’s Seen the Faces..Daniel Mayrit appropriated the characteristics of surveillance technology using Facebook and Google to collect images of the 100 most powerful people in the City of London (according to the annual report by Square Mile magazine in 2013). The people here featured represent a sector which is arguably regarded in the collective perception as highly responsible for the current economic situation, but nevertheless still live in a comfortable anonymity, away from public scrutiny.
See also this book Looters by Tiane Doan Na Champassak
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins
At a time of significant national and global uncertainty, the season in 2018 at the Barbican Art Gallery in London explore how artists respond to, reflect and potentially effect change in the social and political landscape.
Reflecting a diverse, complex and authentic view of the world, the exhibition touches on themes of countercultures, subcultures and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20 photographers from the 1950s to the present day. Diane Arbus, Casa Susanna, Philippe Chancel, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Mary Ellen Mark, Paz Errázuriz, Jim Goldberg, Katy Grannan, Pieter Hugo, Seiji Kurata, Danny Lyon, Teresa Margolles, Boris Mikhailov, Daido Moriyama, Igor Palmin, Walter Pfeiffer, Dayanita Singh Alec Soth and Chris Steele-Perkins
Paz Errázuriz The beautifully arresting series of photographs, Adam’s Apple (1982-87), by Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz are of a community of transgender sex-workers working in an underground brothel in Chile in the 1980s. Taken during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet when gender non-conforming people were regularly subjected to curfews, persecutions and police brutality, the photographs are a collaborative and defiant act of political resistance.
Read review here in Dazed and Confused and a gallery page in the Guardian
Lewis Bush: Archisle Photographer-in-Residence 2018 is a Photographer, Writer, Curator and Educator based in London. After studying History and working as a researcher for the United Nations Taskforce on HIV/AIDS he completed a MA in Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication in 2012. Since then he has developed a multifaceted practice encompassing photography, writing and curation to explore ideas about the way power is created and exercised in the world. In The Memory of History (2012) he travelled through ten European countries documenting the way the past was being manipulated in the context of the economic crisis and recession. This project was widely published and was exhibited at the European Union’s permanent representation in London in 2014. More recent works include Metropole (2015) which critiques the architectural transformation of London and the city’s growing inequality by subverting the imagery of London’s luxury and corporate developments. Bush’s new book Shadows of the State (2018) uses open source research to reveal numbers stations, cold war intelligence communications which remain in use today. Bush is a Lecturer on the MA and BA(hons) Documentary Photography Programmes at London College of Communication.
City and abstraction:
Aaron Siskind
Ernst Haas
Saul Leiter
Street Photography:
Beat Streuli
Canon of american street photography
Walker Evans and his project Labour AnonymousRobert FrankLee FriedlanderGary WinograndDiane ArbusWilliam EgglestonStephen Shore
Jim Goldberg
Eamon Doyle: trilogy from Dublin
The City at Night:
Rut Blees Luxembourg
Maciej Dakowicz: Cardiff at Night
Todd Hido
Saul Leiter
Daniel
Last year Tom Pope came to Jersey for a 6 month residency with Archisle in the Photographic Archive of the Société Jersiaise, Jersey and produced an exhibition and installationI Am Not Tom Pope, You Are All Tom Popefeaturing a number of diverse and new work incorporating elements of photography, performance, video and sculpture. Go to his website to see examples of his unique work. Here are some of the key concepts that underpin’s his work and practice:
Here are a list of other artists/ photographers that has influenced Tom Pope’s work and that may inspire you: Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Yves Klein, Bas Jan Ader, Erwin Wurm, Chris Arnatt, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Francis Alÿs, , Sophie Calle , Nikki S Lee, Claude Cahun, Dennis Oppenheim, Bruce Nauman, Allan Kaprow, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Steve McQueen, Marcel Duchamp and the Readymade, Andy Warhol’s film work, Marina Abramovic, PipilottiRist, Luis Bunuel/ Salvatore Dali: , Le Chien Andalou, Dziga Vertov: The Man with a Movie Camera
John Baldessari: “I will not make any more boring art…”
This summer term you will be working on an exciting Masterplan community arts and education project based around the theme of Future of St Helier in collaboration with Jersey Development Company, Camerons, Jersey Evening Post, Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive, Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme and Masterplan project.
A map of St Helier with areas of for exploration based on urban vingtaines
This project will give you a voice and provide you with an opportunity to explore and experience diverse areas of town using photography as a tool to communicate how you feel about the Future of St Helier.
The project will form part of the A-Level coursework module, Personal Investigation as you now become Yr 13 students.
Tanja DemanJonny Briggs
OVERVIEW
You will respond to specific areas, streets, neighbourhoods divided up along urban vingtaines of St Helier and explore through photography, archives and research the build-environment, urban living, migrant communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects.
You will research historical town records, such as Masterplans and the current review of the Future of St Helier as inspiration for their own photographic work.
The work will be supported by workshops facilitated in collaboration with Lewis Bush, 2018 Archisle Photographer-in-Resident using images from the collections at the Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive of St Helier town and life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Lewis Bush, Metropole
OUTCOME
The outcome of students work will be a 48 page newspaper supplement that will be printed in 13,000 copies, inserted into a daily edition of the JEP and distributed island wide in September 2018.
The newspaper design will also become a street art installation on the hoarding of the construction of the International Finance Centre (IFC Jersey) on the Esplanade.
Students work will also be part of a special event, Night of Photography at the Guernsey Photography Festival 2018, Sat 22 Sept.
The work that you produce here will be the foundation and starting points for your continued Personal Investigation when you return in September for the new academic year to learn about visual storytelling in contemporary photography.
We are hoping that your study of St Helier may develop into a personal project which will culminate in you working towards making your own photo-book by the end of your coursework.
Workshops Student numbers: 45 working in 9 groups
Theme: Future of St Helier.
Day 1: Tue 12 JuneSocieteJersiaise Photographic Archive – all day Presentations, inspirations and workshop on exploring St Helier and looking at narrative using images in the collection of Percival Dunham. Day 2: Tue 19 June – Societe Jersiase Photographic Archive In 9 groups students will explore chosen area of St Helier.
Day 3 Tue 26 June HautlieuSchool – normal lesson time Workshop on narrative and sequence with Lewis Bush
Day 4 Tuesday 11 July Hautlieu School – normal lesson time Workshop on design and editing, including introduction to Indesign with Lewis Bush
Day 5 Tuesday 18 July Hautlieu School – normal lesson time Workshop on completing design and editing with Lewis Bush
Use PlANNER & TRACKING-SHEET-SUMMER TERM 2018 for a full overview of what you are required to do in the next 6 weeks. You are required to self-monitor your progress and will be asked to upload Tracking-Sheet with an update on a weekly basis to your blog.
This unit requires you to produce an appropriate number of blog postswhich charts you project from start to finish including research, planning, analysis, recording, experimentation, evaluation, and presentation of creative outcomes.
For this photo shoot my intentions were to capture this location in more detail and depth. I did this by shooting derelict buildings which had a sense of usage and were clearly left abandoned. I wanted to show the unnecessary space being used up by these buildings that are wasting space. I also intended on bringing a strong contrast between the old vs new of St Helier which would show the wasted space these buildings are creating.
Further experimented images
I feel this shoot was stronger then the original due to a number of different factors. By planning this shoot I feel that it clearly shows that I have thought about what I wanted to capture and how i’d be able to capture future of St Helier in the strongest way. My images where again in black and white as I thought I would be able to use these images to relate to the archive images that I focused on before the shoot. Furthermore, I think by having them in black and white creates more of a story behind it due to the shadows and different shapes that are created and enhanced. These aspects make the image stronger as I feel these certain images would be boring without the shadows and different shapes that help make up these images. Again these images I have chosen to experiment with further are the ones that I thought where the strongest and feel tell more of story then any other image out of the shoot.
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