Unsatisfied with the previous artists I had looked into for my essay I decided to take an alternative route and focus in on two new artists yet with similar messages. I was much more inspired by these two artists work and I felt like i could connect with their photographs on a more personal level than the other photographers which stimulated my willingness to change. The artists which i have chosen to now study are Darren Almound and Tanya Deman and i have therefore amended my first paragraph in relation to these two visual artists. This can be seen below.

Red-done First Draft with new photographers.

The area which I have chosen to study is the sublime and the political debate about how land is used and the destruction that urbanization is causing to the natural land. This has been a reality since humans first existed. The land and how it is used is important to me as I believe it is vital to keep the earth natural and not ruin the sublime environment with man-made features. My initial passion for this subject is due to the environmental issues that I am aware of and the rapid increase in urbanization which is heavily contributing to it. Photographers that explore the sublime environment are often giving the viewer an insight to a landscape that is rare and the experience is uncommon due to the destruction humanity is causing to them. This area of study that I have chosen to look at deals with political, social and cultural issues that have impacted people all across the world. Essentially, my area of study is a non-verbal communication about raising awareness of the beauty of our earth and to prevent people from destroying it. Psychologists believe that this non-verbal communication can reveal much more than words which I believe can help spread my passion for the natural environment and preserving it too. The representation of the land has been explored by many artists including the photographers Darrem Almound and Tanya Deman that I will be analyzing. Both of these photographers use the land to portray their views on how society treats and uses it. Within my essay I will be discussing how the two photographers have taken a different approach in portraying the land in relation to their perspective of it. I have chosen to analyse the work of these two photographers due to their somewhat similar messages yet very different approaches in telling the story. While Darren Almound focuses on portraying the sublime directly by capturing extraordinary scenic shots, Tanya Deman uses a manipulation approach to focus on humanities destruction to the world that is eliminating any recollection of a beautiful natural environment. For Darren Almound I will specifically be looking into his ‘full moon’ project where he leaves you wondering what words like landscape and nature can possibly mean in a world where environmental change is so rapid that both are fast disappearing into myth and memory. In ‘Fullmoon’, British artist Darren Almond catches landscapes around the globe, under the particular light of a full moon. With the shutter kept open for over a quarter of an hour, rivers, meadows and mountains are illuminated almost like daybreak, but the atmosphere is different: a mild glow emanates even from the shadows, star-lines cross the sky, and water blankets the earth like a misty froth. The enhanced moonlight fill the landscapes with a sense of the surreal or the sublime, and with haunting ideas of time, nature and beauty. In relation to Tanya Deman I will explore a particular image of hers which links directly to the ideas that Darren Almounds full moon project portray about the ever changing land and destruction of the the natural landscape. The particular image that I will focus on has these ideas about the natural landscape fast disappearing into myth and memory which is exactly what Almounds project focuses on. The reason i chose to focus on these two artists are due to the similar political issue they have tackled yet the differeing approaches they tackled it with.