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Political Landscapes – Ideas

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Mind Map

Politics – “the activities associated with the governance of a country or area”.

Landscape – “all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal”.

I decided to look into conservation further by researching the ways in which we impact the environment. This led me to factors such as pollution, overpopulation, animal mono culture, hunting, poaching and deforestation.

I chose to look at pollution as an overall topic as I believe it is a global issue that impacts different areas in different extremes.

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Valeria Cherchi – Some of you killed Luisa (GPF)

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Who is Valeria Cherchi?

Valeria Cherchi is an Italian photographer who was born and raised in Sardinia, Italy.

Her practice focuses on projects regarding social and cultural issues. Her research is driven by the need of exploring topics such as time, memories and history connected to her personal experience. She is interested in true and tangible character-driven stories, often told by combining photography and text.

In 2018 Valeria is named in British Journal of Photography’s annual ‘Ones to Watch’.

 

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Future Of St Helier Prints

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The images I chose to print were featured in my zine, based around the theme of ‘living’.

The top 3 images are paired together, connected by colour and location. The images show different perspectives of the same environment. The image on the left is the largest of the three as I wanted the viewer to notice the details in the image, the bird feeder, domesticated cat, mop and ladder all represent the theme of ‘living’.

I chose to present the black and white image on a single board as I believed that it was more powerful by itself. With the slightly hidden figure centre of the image, the viewer is drawn to connect with the person, relating over the daily task of ‘hanging the washing’.

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FUTURE OF ST HELIER NEWSPAPER AND INSTALLATION

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Hoarding Installation

The unveiling of the Future of St Helier Hoarding at the International Finance Centre on the Esplanade in St Helier took place on Thursday 13 Dec 2018.

First published as a 52 page newspaper supplement in September by the Jersey Evening Post the work produced by A-Level Photography students at Hautlieu School have been transformed into a 34m outdoor installation as part of Masterplan Community Arts and Education Project

We were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects.

We thank all sponsors and collaborators for making this a successful contribution to the island’s cultural records and historic archives Jersey Development Company, Camerons Ltd, MJP Architects, Archisle, Lewis Bush, Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise, Kevin Pilley, States of Jersey and Connétable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft

Earlier today we unveiled the Masterplan Future of St Helier hoarding display at the International Finance Centre. Lots of local media interest from Jersey Evening Post, ITV Channel TV and BBC Jersey who broadcasted live on radio talking to photography students at Hautlieu School, Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft and sponsors Jersey Development Company, Camerons Ltd, MJP Architects about the future of the island and its capital. An excellent example of how a community arts and education project can generate a debate that affects all those who either live, work or visit St Helier.

If you are interested in our views of young people tune into BBC Radio here (listen from 3:18:30 onwards or watch the six o’clock news tonight on ITV.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06rlpdw

If you missed the news last night at ITV Channel TV you can catch up here with Hautlieu students talking (15m.12s) about their images on display at the Masterplan Future of St Helier hoarding on the International Finance Centre.

See link here

The outdoor installation on the hoarding around the construction site is a great way to engage the public in art and debates concerning the future of the island’s capital but, what we need in Jersey is a new contemporary art space that will provide a new venue to showcase art produced in the island, but equally also bring international art to Jersey for the public enjoyment of its residents and visitors alike.

The recent Culture, Arts and Heritage Strategic Review, commissioned by the Government of Jersey makes 20 new recommendations that will revitalise the island’s cultural infrastructure and achieve a wide range of social and economic objectives from tourism, to health and well being to external relations, to planning and environmental developments – in the hope that in partnership with Government it will enrich and enhance Jersey’s quality of life.

Let’s hope those in power who can make real changes to St Helier’s build environment will include such a new art space in the revised Masterplan of the Waterfront. All we need is political will and re-prioritising public funding for the arts. States of Jersey

Future of St Helier Newspaper

The outcome of students work was first published on Tuesday 18 September 2018 as a 52 page newspaper supplement, Future of St Helier that was printed in 14,000 copies and inserted into a daily edition of the Jersey Evening Post and distributed island wide.

Here is a video browser of our Future of St Helier supplement printed and distributed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post. Hautlieu photography students were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects. Each student designed a page spread which was then split in half producing a fragmented image reflecting on the nature of experience and diversity of St Helier.

Here is a video browser of our Future of St Helier supplement printed and distributed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post. Hautlieu photography students were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects. Each student designed a page spread which was then split in half producing a fragmented image reflecting on the nature of experience and diversity of St Helier. Make sure to get your copy before the shops close!Thanks to everyone involved in the creative process Archisle Lewis Bush, Jamie Cole, Simon Crowcroft, Kevin Pilley – States of Jersey and our sponsors Jersey Development Company and Camerons Limited.

When seeing my work presented in a public and popular location, I felt proud as I knew that it would be seen by the people it represents. Both my images were portraits but the overall context demonstrated the past importance of religion against the modern importance of construction. Suitably, it is placed alongside the newly built finance buildings, reflecting the future importance of finance.

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Guernsey Photography Festival

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MARK WINDSOR

HISTORY OF THE FUTURE

The History of the future is nostalgia.

Mark Windsor was born in Guernsey, he studied at the London College of Printing and at Derby Lonsdale College before undertaking post-graduate study of community photography and Documentary Photography in the Visual Arts Department of Lancaster University.

He worked as a freelance writer in the UK before returning to Guernsey to work as a photographer/journalist. Mark continues to practice and study photography and has recently returned to freelance work and is now undertaking new commissions.

The layering of human history is implicit in any landscape in which people, over the centuries, have interacted. What remains, and what will be left later of humanity’s hard and soft materials? How will our descendants attach significance to them? Will digital photography leave visual archaeology that will have any meaning to future generations? Will contemporary art photography aid or hinder the communication of knowledge to our descendants?

This exhibition is part of a larger body of work, which is part record of Guernsey, and part speculation on the scope and limitations of photography in its capacity to impart information to future generations.

The visual clues to our past which are the subject of this project, often prompt memory and nostalgia. But what we leave in the picture and how we choose to remember it is a matter of choice – one which we could perhaps engage more consciously.

JAAKKO KAHILANIEMI

Jaakko Kahilaniemi received his BA in Photography from Turku Arts Academy Finland and his MA also in photography from Aalto University of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki Finland. He won the prestigious Majaoja/Backlight Prize and was selected as one of the Lens Culture Emerging Talents in 2017. He was one of the ten finalists in Hyéres Festival in 2018 and in Fotofestiwal Łódź. His work has been featured in many publications and his work has been exhibited at galleries worldwide.

100 HECTARES OF UNDERSTANDING

It’s impossible to overstate the significance of forests for Finland, both historically and economically. Over 71% of the total area of the country is covered by forests – that’s over 26 million hectares. 100 Hectares of Understanding is my attempt to understand the 100 hectare area of the forest I inherited in 1997 when I was only 8 years old. Recent explorations in the forest, and in the world of forestry have managed to provoke my interest towards the unfamiliar property of mine.

The 100 Hectares of Understanding project includes both tangible and intangible approaches and visualizations of what forest and forestry mean to me and how the unknown becomes familiar. I study what nature has to offer to urbanized people and I will try to create new ways of thinking and ways to experience and feel the forest. For the unknown to become familiar requires both physical and delicate acts: to nurture and to tame, to master and to yield. My photographs are testimonial, traces of my aspirations towards understanding and awareness.

Taking inspiration from Fluxus and the traditions of Arte Povera, I seek to encounter the forest with a playful and open approach. 100 Hectares of Understanding consists of the objects that I’ve found, the acts that I’ve photographed, the sculptures I’ve made and visual secrets that I have created.

 

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Carlos Ayesta and Guillaume Bression Photographer Research

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The collaborative photographers Ayesta and Bression were two that stood out to me from the list of photographers who were involved in the Guernsey Photography Festival 2018. After reading the exhibition information about the photographers it was evident to me that the ideas behind their work fitted my initial ideas on how to proceed with the topic ‘political landscapes’ and also continues on from what I explored within the Future of St Helier…

…Specifically of all looking at how people are affected by their surrounding environment, in this case how the people of Fukushima in Japan were affected due to the nuclear disaster that occurred in the region in March 2011.

Here is a link to the Bression and Ayesta page on the Guernsey Photography Festival 2018 website – https://guernseyphotographyfestival.com/2018-festival/photographers/guillaume-bression-carlos-ayesta

A statement from L’Œil de la photographie regarding the photographers followed as ‘Carlos Ayesta and Guillaume Bression rushed to Fukushima after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. To see for themselves. To bear witness. They photographed not to testify but by necessity, because they could not believe their eyes, and that—the unbelievable magnitude of the devastation—turned their amazement into a project.’ I believe that this is a great example of how an experience or a concern can make a great reason to produce amazing photographs which have a lot of context and meaning behind them. This is something that I wish to do with this following project as I am going to explore an issue which I personally, as well as many others, are concerned about.

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Project Idea

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https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/plastic-recycling-oceans-rivers-pollution-investigation-environment-agency-a8591736.html

A composite image of items found on the shore of the Thames Estuary in Rainham, Kent. Tons of plastic and other waste lines areas along the Thames Estuary shoreline, an important feeding ground for wading birds and other marine wildlife.

A man climbs down to a garbage filled river in Manila. Plastic rubbish will outweigh fish in the oceans by 2050 unless the world takes drastic action to recycle the material, a report warned in 2016.

Project Idea

Focusing on plastic pollution for my project is a very current issue in the world today, making the final images relevent and applicable to political landscapes. Many people have realised the detrimental effects on the world with the overusage of plastic and many people are trying to change that.  For example, The Independent’s campaign against single use plastics called Cut the Cup Waste was met with such rapid success Robert Jenrick, a Treasury minister, signalled that Philip Hammond, the chancellor, will be acting to reduce waste in this autumn’s budget. This is just one example of people trying to change people’s views on the way they use plastic, similar to what I want to do. I want to further emphasis the effects of plastic and pollution on the world and environment. I also want to explore how these consequences will effect future generations, also looking into personal archives or public archives at past generations and how they have contributed, making my project more personal. I intend to look at specific areas in Jersey and document what is there and what I find. There may have been many photography projects on the effects of plastic on the world, but i plan to look at it in an unconventional way.

Anthropocene:

relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

Cut the Cup Waste   https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/latte-levy-plastics-disposable-cups-coffee-mps-25p-bags-a8142141.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/editorial-disposablecoffee-cups-latte-levy-tea-hot-drinks-plastic-tax-campaign-a8497431.html

Possible photographers to explore:

http://www.andyhughes.net/site/portfolio-2/uncategorized/plastiglomerate/

Andy Hughes: http://www.andyhughes.net/site/portfolio-2/uncategorized/plastika-alaska-2/

Mandy Barker: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/these-haunting-photographs-call-attention-plastic-trash-swirling-ocean-180963219/