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Guernsey Photography Festival 2018 | Political Landscape

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What is “Political Landscape”?

It is important that we all have an understanding and interpretation of the term “political landscape” before we venture into un-ravelling how a range of influential photographers have tackled elements of this theme…

  • issues being discussed by some / most people
  • current affairs that are influenced by the parties in power
  • the current state of things, as well as how they are looking in the future.
  • how decisions in past have shaped our lives…

Class Activity

  • work in small teams of 2 /3 people
  • respond to the following sub-headings and create a dynamic brainstorm on coloured sugar paper
  • think carefully about how these points have affected your past, resent and future lives
  • pass the paper around the class to add to the discussion points
  • present your findings and debate the relevance / importance of each…
  1. health
  2. education
  3. infrastructure
  4. public services
  5. community
  6. human rights
  7. civil rights

Now look at…

Guernsey Photography Festival “Political Landscape”

  • Click on the link above to view and choose a range of
  • photographers to research and explore…

The theme for the 2018 Festival is Political Landscape. This has always been present throughout the history of photography. From the Crimean war battlefield photographs of Roger Fenton; Ansel Adams’ sublime American landscapes; the objective and conceptual typologies of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s industrial buildings; to the iconic pale blue dot, taken by Voyager 1. These historic landmarks and many more have helped develop the way photographers work with landscape.

You can clearly see in each of the contributing artist’s work how they have approached, embraced or integrated the theme…but we want you to now engage with the nature of the work itself and develop your knowledge and understanding.

The various approaches…

Documentary photography tends to take place over an extended time. Some photographers will set a specific time-frame to what they are documenting and how they are documenting the event(s), happenings, locations and characters attached to the story or narrative.

Social documentary photography or concerned photography is the recording of how the world looks like, with a social and/or environmental focus. It is a form of documentary photography, with the aim to draw the public’s attention to ongoing social issues.

Usually, there is a point to this process. We may, as photographers, document how land is being used / abused, how land is passed down through generations of families, how land is protected, why land often has a spiritual connection to communities and society as a whole, how and why land physically changes to fit with political agendas and so on…

Lisa Barnard, “The canary and the hammer”

But you may be more interested in exploring creative and conceptual approaches to taking / making your images. Tableaux photography relies on setting up, staging and capturing scenes, events or incidents usually involving people.

Jaako Kahilaniemi 100 Hectares of Understanding

Archive driven / reliant work often stems from extensive research and even appropriation of pre-existing material including photographs, film, legal documents, transcripts, maps, plans, articles and more.

Example

Valeria Cherchi has combined archival material with tableaux arrangements to explore a controversial and secretive program of vigilante action in Sardinia towards the end of last century in “Some of you killed Luisa”.

 

Research and analysis Task

  1. Choose 2 x photographers from GPF 2018 to explore, discuss, describe and explain key examples from their current projects
  2. Compare and contrast their approaches and outcomes and ask yourself…
  • what?
  • how?
  • why?
  • when?
  • where?
  1. Show critical awareness of the purpose and outcome of the work, and how it has developed over time.
  2. Illustrate clearly how the subject matter has been represented
  3. Critique the presentation of the work
  4. Ensure your blog posts are visually informative and include…
  • hyperlinks to appropriate sites and articles
  • embedded videos that support / illustrate you research
  • definition(s) of “Political Landscape”
  • a range of pre-exisiting, alternative approaches to the concept of political landscape

This should help YOU to formulate a plan for the practical element…

Practical Task

To successfully complete this task you must choose 2 of the options below to inspire your ideas…

  1. Documentary / narrative
  2. Creative / conceptual (includes tableaux approaches)
  3. Archive-driven

…and create a set of blog posts that clearly demonstrate your ability to respond to the theme of Political Landscape. You may want to extend your ideas from the Future of St Helier…or embark on a new and different approach.

You may want to choose from the following prompts…

  • how land is being used / abused (locally or elsewhere)
  • how land is passed down through generations of families,
  • how land is protected,
  • why land often has a spiritual connection to specific communities and society as a whole,
  • how and why land physically changes to fit with political agendas
  • the importance of borders / restrictions
  • how we are defined by where we live, work, spend time
  • human rights and the effects on our surroundings
  • civil rights and the effects on our surroundings
  • media outlets, agendas and information accessibility

You must clearly outline your intentions and reasoning for your approach to the theme…define and de-construct what political landscape could be

You must devise and complete at least 1 x photo-shoot (min. 250 images)and produce a range of outcomes that are the result of careful and intelligent camera techniques, selection, editing and presentation methods.

Remember to analyse and evaluate your process carefully, using specialist vocabulary…

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Useful articles to help you explore some recent  / current examples of local starting points re : political landscape

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Second Shoot

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Contact Sheet 

For this shoot I wanted to go when the weather was slightly overcast and not too sunny otherwise I would get reflection off the windows of some of the buildings which I thought might ruin some of the shots. But the sun did come out but it didn’t effect the overall look of the image and i did get some successful shots that I will be able to use.

Images from the shoot that I plan to develop 

For this shoot I wanted to focus on the buildings of the finance center, as the architecture of these buildings is almost geometrical. But I mainly wanted to go and photography for the symbol reference of the images, as my idea when editing the images this to insert stereo-typically, ‘grandma’ wallpaper. As the connotation of grandparents is that they are warm, welcoming and kind. Whereas the feeling around the finance industry is that it is a harsh cold and mean environment which  is only centered on creating money and not the employee that work of the companies. So I think that having the two ideas coming together would create a clear sense of juxtaposition.  Which might make the work look  at first abstract and the audience might not understand at first, but that is what i wanted to do with this project was too make the audience stop and think about what jersey/ St Helier really is. Rather than the picture perfect images that jersey is usually associated too.

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FUTURE OF ST HELIER NEWSPAPER AND INSTALLATION

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Hoarding Installation

The unveiling of the Future of St Helier Hoarding at the International Finance Centre on the Esplanade in St Helier took place on Thursday 13 Dec 2018.

First published as a 52 page newspaper supplement in September by the Jersey Evening Post the work produced by A-Level Photography students at Hautlieu School have been transformed into a 34m outdoor installation as part of Masterplan Community Arts and Education Project

We were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects.

We thank all sponsors and collaborators for making this a successful contribution to the island’s cultural records and historic archives Jersey Development Company, Camerons Ltd, MJP Architects, Archisle, Lewis Bush, Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise, Kevin Pilley, States of Jersey and Connétable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft

Earlier today we unveiled the Masterplan Future of St Helier hoarding display at the International Finance Centre. Lots of local media interest from Jersey Evening Post, ITV Channel TV and BBC Jersey who broadcasted live on radio talking to photography students at Hautlieu School, Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft and sponsors Jersey Development Company, Camerons Ltd, MJP Architects about the future of the island and its capital. An excellent example of how a community arts and education project can generate a debate that affects all those who either live, work or visit St Helier.

If you are interested in our views of young people tune into BBC Radio here (listen from 3:18:30 onwards or watch the six o’clock news tonight on ITV.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06rlpdw

If you missed the news last night at ITV Channel TV you can catch up here with Hautlieu students talking (15m.12s) about their images on display at the Masterplan Future of St Helier hoarding on the International Finance Centre.

See link here

The outdoor installation on the hoarding around the construction site is a great way to engage the public in art and debates concerning the future of the island’s capital but, what we need in Jersey is a new contemporary art space that will provide a new venue to showcase art produced in the island, but equally also bring international art to Jersey for the public enjoyment of its residents and visitors alike.

The recent Culture, Arts and Heritage Strategic Review, commissioned by the Government of Jersey makes 20 new recommendations that will revitalise the island’s cultural infrastructure and achieve a wide range of social and economic objectives from tourism, to health and well being to external relations, to planning and environmental developments – in the hope that in partnership with Government it will enrich and enhance Jersey’s quality of life.

Let’s hope those in power who can make real changes to St Helier’s build environment will include such a new art space in the revised Masterplan of the Waterfront. All we need is political will and re-prioritising public funding for the arts. States of Jersey

Future of St Helier Newspaper

The outcome of students work was first published on Tuesday 18 September 2018 as a 52 page newspaper supplement, Future of St Helier that was printed in 14,000 copies and inserted into a daily edition of the Jersey Evening Post and distributed island wide.

Here is a video browser of our Future of St Helier supplement printed and distributed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post. Hautlieu photography students were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects. Each student designed a page spread which was then split in half producing a fragmented image reflecting on the nature of experience and diversity of St Helier.

Here is a video browser of our Future of St Helier supplement printed and distributed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post. Hautlieu photography students were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects. Each student designed a page spread which was then split in half producing a fragmented image reflecting on the nature of experience and diversity of St Helier. Make sure to get your copy before the shops close!Thanks to everyone involved in the creative process Archisle Lewis Bush, Jamie Cole, Simon Crowcroft, Kevin Pilley – States of Jersey and our sponsors Jersey Development Company and Camerons Limited.

Posted by Martin Toft on Tuesday, 18 September 2018

 

 

Analysis, AO4 Present Ideas, Final Outcomes

Evaluation of My Final Outcome

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I think that throughout the Future of St. Helier newspaper project I have thoroughly explored the different aspects of St. Helier and the people within it. I have photographed environmental portraits and portraits of unaware subjects to catch the different sides of the population of St. Helier as well as photographing completely different styles of buildings within the capital. If I was to explore the Future of St. Helier again I would focus on more set-up photo-shoots with interesting people within the parish in order to get an insight into what they think the future of St. Helier is and how they feel about the changes that it is going through.

At the beginning of the project I planned on photographing lots of people in their natural work environments in order to create a collection of photographs that show the different jobs and dress codes that come with them in St. Helier. My intentions changed when we visited the construction site at Ann Street car park as I saw the difference between the newly built buildings and the buildings being demolished and thought that this difference had to be recognised as it is the Future of St. Helier in the present.

I learnt throughout this photographs that there are many aspects to St. Helier which differ depending on which area of the parish you are in. Every subject that you photograph or speak to are completely their own person and have a different story. I learnt a lot about the future plans of St. Helier and how vital the finance industry is to Jersey and how quickly it is advancing.