For my first photoshoot I want to focus on urban structures and infrastructure around the Green area I’ve been assigned to explore.  Focusing on this will allow me to show how new buildings and constructions are becoming central theme of St Helier’s future and it becoming less and less about the history and atmosphere of Jersey itself.

Whilst on my shoot I will also focus on photographing smaller details that may not be noticed by people passing to represent how people in St Helier are forgetting Jersey’s heritage. This is taking inspiration from the photographer Luke Fowler where he uses two-frame juxtapositions of two images.  I also want to incorporate the idea of juxtaposing two extremes next to each other e.g. the chaotic urban structures compared to the more natural and calm. I think this will be effective as it will show people how the heritage of Jersey is juxtaposed with the future of St Helier and how they are opposites.

The first place i want to visit on my shoot is Fort Regent.

Fort Regent is a 19th-century fortification, and leisure centre, on Mont de la Ville (Town Hill), in St. Helier.

• The construction of the fortress we see today on Town Hill began on 7 November 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars The fort was built using local workers and men from the Royal Engineers, with an average of 800 men working at any given time.
• This enabled the substantial amount of work to be completed 8 years later, in 1814.
• It was given the name Fort Regent in honour of Prince Regent, who was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at this time.
• During the German occupation of the Channel Islands, the German forces made some additions to the fort, including flak cannons. Some of these concrete structures remain today.
•  In December 1967, the States of Jersey made a decision to adapt the site into a leisure centre. The swimming pool located on the glacis field, which opened in 1971 and closed in 2009,was the first modern addition to the fort.

The second place I want to visit is the old harbor as their is a lot of history and jersey heritage associated it.

• The harbour development which was completed by 1850. A few years earler the South and North pier had been built by the States, creating a harbour significantly bigger than the previous English and French Harbours. But all of this dried out for several hours around low tide, and thoughts were already turning towards further expansion.
• Work on a new pier to the south of the existing harbour was already under way in 1843 when the eminent English engineers James Walker and Alfred Burges were commissioned to produce plans for a further enlarged harbour, and they proposed removing the outer arm of the old South Pier, and widening and extending the narrow North Pier towards it to create a new harbourmouth.

The development of St Helier Harbour

More areas to focus on:

Themes to consider:

• Old vs New vs Development
• Make use of your senses : see , hear ,taste, smell, touch
• Typography and graphics
• Art and culture
• Two-Frame Film | Juxtapostions