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St. Helier shoot 3

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For this last shoot,I went to a buildings site and I wanted to concentrate on the old vs new St Helier and the modernisation and what has to happen to town.

When going to the property development site,there was a different attitude of st helier,which was less centered around community but more around making life better for others with new morden living conditions and to them making an old abandoned area Morer beautiful and becoming more futuristic in st helier. I agree with this.I think development is important because it makes many jobs for people within jersey and foreigners.They all have the same aspiration to make jersey a better place.

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St. Helier photoshoot 2

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For this shoot I wanted to focus more on people and the areas in which they live and work in St Helier. I asked many of the people I took images off what they want to change in St Helier and their aspirations.

When asking the people within St.Helier,what they want for the future of their parish to be,many of their ideas relied around concerns about development and community. I spoke to the older generations so many of their views were similar.They had a fear that with the modernisation of St helier the great current sense of community would vanish.

The older women I spoke to works at the church and said how great the community was and how she just wants this to stay strong,her main concern was people not being able to afford their business anymore due to the growing process within st Helier. However due to her main interest of her community staying the same she supports developments when they are useful for everyone,this could be areas in which there are activities to do such as pools,casinos,shows and theatres.another important theme for her was the sharing of history,she told me the church we were in was built over a memorial made in the 1800’s and this is a story many would not know,she says that stories are enough to pass down history but it is still important to have areas of history be shown within jersey,once again the modernisation of jersey does not mean destroying the history of jersey’s heritage. However, Many old people do not know what is currently happening within St.Helier.

 

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St. Helier photoshoot 1

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For this shoot I wanted to focus on the more urban landscape around St Helier,using old decaying homes and the old police station back alleys as key points of the investigation. I edited the images to be less exposed and have a darker tonal style.

The first shoot I purley wanted to focus on the primary location of the red sections I was give,I wanted to show a more urban atmosphere as this is what this site successful achieved. I focused on buildings where i could see an interesting texture to the buildings,and colours that have been pushed back. I think it was interesting as i explored many areas that were restricted and paths the normal citizen would not visit and walk down themselves.again I wanted darker images less exposed and so on as this would compliment the images more to the atmosphere given.  

 

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Two-Frame

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I took inspiration from Luke Fowlers ‘Two-Frame Films’ book. Fowler discusses how the idea of ‘in the blink of an eye’ has a different meaning for us as human beings than it does with the camera. When we blink and close our eyes, we are blind to the world in that instant. By printing two different images alongside one another, he aims to emphasise the momentary nature of a photograph.

My first two images I took near the old harbour in St Helier. I chose for these two images to be paired together as I like the link of the grey in the cranes and bars to the underneath of the white plastic. I like these two images together as there is a juxtaposition between the close up detailed angle of the plastic on the right and the further away angle of the cranes and construction on the left, but still having the blurred close up of the bars in the foreground.

I paired these two images together as i found they have similar shapes a lines within them. Firstly, the pipe hole in the left image links to the two circular shapes on the right both of these sections being black making the connection more obvious. I also like the contrast between the textured  grass and the concrete grey ground. The brown colour of the rope in the left images is balanced out by the brown dirt on the left making both these images completely different but connected.

To improve this image i would take a bird eye view of the image on the right so in both the images the angle would be the same but the subject and place wouldn’t.

I paired these two images together as i like the juxtaposing patterns and shapes within the two. The fence in the right image has vertical and horizontal lines crossing over one another in the foreground which is contrasted with the left image containing more circular shapes like dots. Both images are quite chaotic but the similar tones of grey link the two together. The image on the right stands out more because of the bright yellow and more chaotic composition. I chose this image as it focuses more on what other do not stop and look at in everyday life similar to Luke Fowler’s style of work. I chose the image on the left as i liked the footprint in the center of the image showing the only trace of life across the two images and represents people leaving behind their mark on the world.

The paired images reveal an event unfolding – a meaningful narrative posed by photographic sets, sometimes close in temporal proximity (the blink of time passing, perhaps), while at other times, the intervals are more expansive, challenging the viewer to connect visible terminal points in a satisfying way.

Fowler experimented with different film stocks, subjects and framing, and the images are inextricably linked to his filmmaking as evidenced by the elements of montage, colour and reflectivity that permeate the series. In both still and moving image, Fowler considers how an event might be abstracted by the camera apparatus in a subjective ordering of reality that is emphasised by the dialectic between paired images. The photographs are a means of personally testing the ability of the camera to authentically bear witness to an event, and its fallibility as a medium of representation.

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Final Shortlist From St. Helier Photographs

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This selection of photographs shows the top 20 images from my shoot in St. Helier. It shows different architectural structures, people, construction and areas that have been abandoned. These photographs take inspiration from Albert Smith and Michelle Sank in the sense that they document the people and their environments along with structures within the environment.

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St Helier Photoshoot 1

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I reviewed all of my images I took on my St. Helier photoshoot and selected the top 100 images from throughout the day.  When photographing these images I relaised I was drawn to the bold and abstract shapes and colours and how this contrasts with the background of some images.

To develop these images I will pick a smaller selection and arrange them in an order together as I think the images I have collected all link together in a way. I wanted to focus on the parts of St Helier that people may not pay attention to in everyday life, similar to Luke Fowler.

Here are selection of my favourite images from the shoot:

One of my favourite photo from this shoot was the  image on the left.

Visual:

  • I like this image due to its bold and structural lines and shapes that frame the photo. The right hand side has multiple bold white lines creating a crossed pattern to the middle of the image which is juxtaposed with the simple red wall behind and on the right if the image.
  • The contrasts between the red wall behind the white railings gives the image a more abstract feel and only allowing the audience to tell what the shapes are because of the staircase in the bottom right hand side.
  • The use of only three main colours in the image gives it a minimalistic appearance, focusing in the structural side.

 

  • I also like the image of the right due to its industrial appearance with the crane and metal crates, focusing entirely on structures.
  • The bold black and yellow wall along the bottom the he image contrasted with the rest of the quite dark colours in the image, making the wall more obviously a warning not to cross over.
  • The composition in this image shows the structures in layers, starting from the yellow and black wall along the bottom, followed above by the entirely black crate going half way up the image. Above that is a smaller brown crate and a blue crate above. The different layers in the image create obvious divisons between each section, but the way all the shapes are together makes them look conjoined

 

Industrial Images:

AO4 Present Ideas, Externally Set Assignment AS

presentation

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 I want the presentation of these images to keep focus on the images themselves because of the context. The style of these images are very minimalistic and I want the presentation to reflect that. I think the white and black boarders draw the eye away too much because of the contrasting shades and the bright colours. 

Below is an example of Krista Svalbonas' presentation. She keeps the images she produces very raw and minimal, almost like the erratic shapes of her images defines itself. With my images, I think that the coloured backgrounds frames the pictures and there is no need for me to mount my pictures on a black board.
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final images

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Bacon - I decided to have a trio of images for the pieces that reflect the meat industry and also, a larger image that I composed by repeating the bacon images over and over again - my reason behind this was to heighten the sense of mass production and consumption of meat. I would of liked to created work constructed more like Krista Svalbonas with the images I produced with the bacon, with a more contorted and twisted effect. However, I think the use of the composition in blocks mirrors the structure and order of our daily lives and constructed society and the habit of eating meat. 

Plastic - With the images I produced with plastic, I think my composition reflects Krista Svalbonas' work more than the bacon images. When I was creating these images, the process felt more creative in terms of figuring out the shapes and placement of the repeated images. However, I think I could of created more out of the material I had and produced a similar image like the pop art of bacon that represents the mass and the extent humans go to, to satisfy a habit. Both the topics have the same principle, a problem that has arisen because of the growth of population and selfishness of our race.

 

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editing process

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I went through a similar process of editing as the bacon photos. I removed the background and cut up the image of the plastic and created an abstract circular block of plastic waste. I deliberately chose to make the main image circular so it plants the idea of an ongoing problem and the long cycle of the disintegration of plastic. I then used the eyedropper tool to pick out the colours that the plastic reflected from the studio lights for the background colour.

I also created a slight shadow on both edits by copying the plastic image and using a colour overlay layer, using a colour slightly darker than the background. I chose to do this because a shadow gives the image depth which makes the image seem like it is protruding from the screen and adds to the effect of mass plastic.