what does political mean:DEFINITION:’relating to the government or public affairs of a country.“a period of political and economic stability” Politics is a word of greek origin and translates to ‘”affairs of the cities”)  This highlights the process of making a decision and how this applies to groups and members of people  In modern nation-states, people have formed political parties to represent their ideas.

what this meant to me: I believe political to me means someone who is concentrated around the making of rules and the matter of what is right and wrong and what is best for a community of people. However I believe this is the intention of politics I do however believe there is a strong sense of idiocy, lies and corruption within politics. There is also a clear representation that law was a concept made in order to keep peace, however it has caused many issues such as division between race, matter of opinion and communities of people. This disagreement between people causes wars and leads to other issues which then concentrate to political issues as again they are solved by politicians. As seen previously the definition is a group of decision making people, This group of people who make the decisions are very unlike those who they are making the decisions for. This is reflected through the decisions of class, amount of money and additionally political views reflected within everyone. This has a pivotal part of the community. I believe that we live in a  democracy and this means everyone should have a voice. This means everyone having a right vote and to voice their opinions

what does landscapes mean:DEFINITION:All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.“the soft colours of the Northumbrian landscape”. The term landscape emerged around the turn of the sixteenth century to denote a painting whose primary subject matter was natural scenery. A landscape is a sense of something that used to belong in english landscape.  because of this it typically very traditional. This is interesting because it is not urbanised and only seen as soft. However…. 

what this means to me: A landscape to me usually means a deep concentration of the land itself, so an enhanced concentration on nature and ignorance of man and all man made concepts. I think overtime landscapes have evolved more to me to capture a whole scenario that is reflective of where I am. This is a demonstration of narrative documentary and is also inclusive of people being within the image. I think It is important to create a mood, emotion and feeling within a landscape and not be just a ‘pretty picture’. When many people think of landscapes they reflect on the past history that occurred in that area. It is an area of land which is a reflection of memories. Political this includes wars suffering and past negative impacts that people try and forgot happened. Whenever I am looking at nature I reflect upon the beauty and also the power that nature has over humans. I think there is a misunderstood strength to every landscapes and to how it was made,I want to highlight the power and possibly present nature vs human within some of my images.  The landscape itself and what is underlining such as the history is a large concept but so is the archaeology and the study of the way in which humanity has changed the physical appearance of the environment – both present and past. This can then lead me onto environmental issues and the ignorance humans have for the actions and reaction fo nature. I believe a landscape is a reflection of a home, it is loved by many people because this is what they remember as going up and part of their childhood and who they are today. Within every landscape is a groups of people influenced by its behaviour.

I want to start off withe experimenting within three concepts:

My first concept is: portraying a sense of emotion mirrored through people and a landscapes, this will be portrayed through the attitude and strength of nature, the scenario and the tonal weather that will create a pathetic fallacy effect. I have chosen this as it political enforces the worrisome of human mental health and also the well being of global warming and the system of mind is just as important as the state of nature.  This would be under more conceptual and creative photography approaches , however when involvement of the nature this can not be narrated and so has mirroring effects of documentary photography.

local examples of these ideas:Emotions are more like a landscape; there is a variety of emotional expressions, verbal communication, and body language that goes with REACTION.You may experience a range of emotions, but think of three to start with: SAD, MAD, and GLAD.With more  research into emotions i discovered that “ Positive people cognitively process more efficiently and more appropriately. If you’re in a negative mood, a fair amount of processing is going to that mood. When you’re in a positive mood, you’re more open to taking in information and handling it effectively.” Politically this shows how people are effected by governmental issues such as money, housing, humans rights and if they are being discriminated upon this will have an influence on how they perceive a landscape and what emotion they see within nature. I think this is a really interesting concept that not only discusses mental health, the power of nature, and governmental power but also shows a physiological impact on what happens when  we see a certain landscape differing on our moods. I will represent this through a local landscape of familiarity, this will probably reflect a positive  attribute to the landscape and actions of the person due to a familiarity between them.

International example: This will have alot more power within the image due to people not knowing the area and depending on the persons mood. I could Include more narrative reflections of a landscape by taking images of native places in international areas so effecting my opinion on the landscape through their own personal influences.

My second concept:  fashion as a state of conciseness and political correctness. This would involve staged more tabloids shots of long dresses or political statement in urban and natural landscapes. These could all be done and staged in order to promote a specific issue such as furr. I could also incorporate beauty standards within a landscape and also portraiture and questions political correctness of gender and beauty standards within many formats.

local examples of this could be: a complete reflection of political issues where these models or tabloid scenarios are set up, in jersey specifically this could include a staged photoshoot outside the hospital or on land in clothes that show a contrasts in order to stage where and when.I want each image to be vivid in colour and clear within the concept they are trying to convey politically. I want it to be highly influential and fashion forward covered in colours and also huge outfits also causing a huge statement as it is going against what idealistically deemed as the normative. Fashion and what we wear is an expression of who we are so these huge outfits will make an expression fo who these women are and also a transformative way to highlight sexism, women’s rights and gender fluidity within the left political ideologies. They images could not only question the normative. I think I will divide these shoots into different themes in order to completely experiment within what issues I am currently trying to present. internationally: These examples are seen along the catwalk and on the front of major influential magazines such as vogue,etc..

my last concept: is a narrative documentary of how people live and perhaps show the conceptual side of poverty that is not usually seen within the main media. This could be perceived locally as: housing issues within Jersey and the communities differing within each parish. Much like within the future of St Helier I was able to capture people along with their emotions and attitudes towards the town itself. Similarly I will want to capture people in their natural from as a type of street photography. I want to show a synced aspect  like my previous images so will highlight a sense of cohesion within each of my shoots. internationally i can reflect a community if people  living in an area not unlike jersey and see how there life is so different to ours. Within this concept I am allowing myself a large range of possible areas, outcomes and people to meet and leaving this concept idea of how the government politically ignores those in need the most will be interesting to capture them and their living conditions.

The issues which I want to discuss through my work conceptually are how the narrative needs to be a strong part of current affairs and  or a concept that will affect the future and shape our lives. I want to create a dynamic brainstorm and think of points that will possibly effect myself and others around me in the future. I think I will take more of a personal affect such as how people are directly effected through human rights, civil rights, living conditions and reflections of mental health within people. I could then show how all of these issues are effected by politics and the government. I think by using interesting techniques such as conceptual and narrative will creatively represent these tough topics and drawing in more attention from an audience.

Artistic inspiration-Jaakko Kahilaniemi

Kahilaniemi Is a creative artist  who uses more conceptual styles in order to present a landscape to evoke emotion and a general theme. Although this art is purely landscape based with no involvement of people I still however think the editing and overall direction is highly interesting.

I have chosen this artists because with each stage of his work he has a clear theme and goal as to what he wants to connote.  He always wants to visualise a complex and contradictory relationship between man and nature and the how mankind is a manner in how natures cycle works. His work attempts to make a sense of peace between humans and nature in some type of way. To my mind I think there is a huge aspect of purity within his work, the colours of light and show a more delicate approach to the harsh power of nature but yet a soft movement of how men and nature form together. The artist clearly has such a strong open mindfullness and this visual research is always drawn to radical interference. There is a force present within his work without man or nature being overpowered by one and another. He shows vast amounts of trees in order to show the aftermath of a forest fire, this directness challenges visual secrets and consider how work and an image can fit into a much wider context.

This is one of my favourite pieces of work buy this artist. It is meant to be a reflection of adulthood from man within the forest and the future inheritance to future explorations in the forest. The artist has said this piece is a ‘tangible and intangible’ approach to visualisations. There is a clearly more personal connection as to what he himself thinks  a forest means to him and how the study of nature has now been seen irrelevant to those who are urbanised. This new way of thinking though an arbitrary mix shows various types of pictures moulded into one larger visual entity. You can see traces all over vast lands overlapped within each other and how this experimentation has led to an understanding and awareness of what nature is to himself and what beauty it can be combined to make. This image is a gateway of core imagination. This project is purely based off finding objects and also a sense of emotion and creating a visual secret within the image itself. I find this fascinating and that it works hugely well. 

He rarely combines people within his work but when he does he also attributes many of their characteristics to that of nature and the combination of something that is usually perceived as beautiful presented in an uncharacteristic manner. I think I could further experiment with these ideals as they are quite conceptual and would make highly interesting images.  I additionally think using a mixture of tonal and exposure to focus on light is very successful.

Documentary/narrative

The fist type of photography I want to look at is documentary/narrative photography :when concentrating on the type of photography that is narrative, I want to be able to tell a story through each image and  person being photographed. Interesting context will always tell a story.  Although it is important to think about what is included within the images themselves. when focusing  on different elements of narrative there are different aspects which are important to convey, these are: if there is more than one person in a photo you need to convey a relationship, this should be naturally done through observation. However if there is one person an alternative is to show a relationship interacting with someone outside the frame. Social communication is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and narrative stories have long been a common and powerful mode for transmitting information.

A narrative should show a sense of connected events and a reflection of how these people or places are connected in photography  narrative is related to the idea of context. comprehensive narrative appears it will always be the product of including some elects and excluding others. Inclusion and exclusion to me will be about the angle and composition to which I should kale the image in order to connote a scenario and a feeling to the viewer themselves.

• introducing the location
• giving the story a ‘face’
• letting people tell their own story
• contextualizing those stories
• following a dramatic form

From this basic construct I then need to think bout the behind the scenes and reasoning and consequence of the image occurrence, for this I will think of an issue, events movements, who the characters are and why they are there in a context. I think my primary concern of experimentation now is to form a sense of ideas surrounding  political landscapes. When thinking of political landscapes I instantly think of people and they way in which they are living in a specific scenario. My main concentration though is I want my images to be interesting, I do not want boring images which do not make people question anything because this is not a successful narrative style.

Creative / conceptual

My second area that I am going to concentrate on is studying is Creative / conceptual (includes tableaux approaches),I have chosen this approach  as said previously I want my images to be extraordinary interesting and eye catching and draw people attention to question why the image was taken and the connotations behind the image itself. I want each image to be uniquely powerful in its composition, meaning and explore composition and light within the images. More abstract genres like conceptual photography can seem vague and even confusing, especially for beginners. What does a conceptual photo look like, exactly? And how can you know whether your photo fits that label?

My main intention is to try and visualize a concept similarly to narrative documentary expect this is a-lot more staged in order to create a specific effect and message not specifically effecting that person themselves. Although As a methodology conceptual photography is a type of photography that is staged to represent an idea. The ‘concept’ is both preconceived and, if successful, understandable in the completed image

Moodboard of inspiring images:

This mood board is full of conceptual ideas, I think it is more important to plan creative shoots as narrative and documentary is a-lot more natural in capturing occurring scenarios. I am slightly more drawn towards people within the alternative landscapes as I think this allows a more interesting compositions and a new insight and important area to look at study.