The exploration of the city as a rough and dingy place can enhance the audience to interact with the natural environment which is my overall intentions within this project. I will try to incorporate the sense of fear that is present in the area and the beauty this has too, to portray the sublime. For this shoot, I intend to visit the northern quarter in Manchester, a rather run down urban area. The somewhat scary yet interesting derelict streets will help to show an exaggerated feared perception that can be experienced by a person there.

My overall intentions for this shoot is to take photos with the intention of manipulating them in post production to enhance the distress and the psychological effects that the urban area can connect with. This photo shoot connects with the sublime in the way that the cityscape is a beautiful place where people often will go for walks and to soak up the atmosphere however it has this element of fear connected to it too. This element of fear is evident in cities through the high crime, gangs and scary alleys that are present. Linking to the ideas of the picturesque, my images will need the viewer to look more in detail at the fear I am portraying through the cities. This fear being the environmental problems they are having and the impact they have on our natural land.

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