What is a Political Landscape

The definition of political is relating to the government or public affairs of a country. Politics is about the contempory issues within a country and how these issues impact the country and community.  The word comes from the same Greek word from which the title of Aristole’s book Politics  also derives; polis means “affairs of the cities”. The book title was rendered in Early Modern English in the mid-15th century as “Polettiques”; it became “politics” in Modern English. The singular politic first attested in English 1430 and comes from  Middle French politique, in turn from Latin politicus, which is the Latinisation  of the Greek politikos, meaning amongst others “of, for, or relating to citizens”, “civil”, “civic”, “belonging to the state”, in turn from  polites, “citizen” and that from  polis, “city”

Landscape is defined as all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal. Landscape includes all of the visible features of an area of land as well as the parts that are not seen or the parts that happen behind closed doors, such as the businesses or families that occupy land. The word ‘landscape’ comes from the late 16th century from the Middle Dutch word ‘lantscap’, which comes from the equivalent of ‘land’ and ‘ship’.

There is no definite definition of a political landscape and many influential photographers have tackled this theme in a variety of ways. To me political landscape is exploring the contemporary issues which are most impacting our society. This is to raise an awareness of issues which people are unaware of yet are so obvious.

 

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