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’.

Future of St Helier

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.

Throughout the Future of St Helier project i have collated a range of information about the past, present and future of the parish which has guided and helped my ideas on how I believe the future of the capital parish should look. When exploring my allocated area for our first photoshoot, I came to the realisation that the parish is in severe need for reconstruction due to the huge amounts of dereliction and old buildings. Some may argue that it is important to keep old buildings as they have certain significance but in my view, I would prefer to see modern architecture that is visually pleasing for the community. Due to this, I went back to St Helier at nighttime to try and capture St Helier as a modern chaotic city that I feel we lack. I used the illuminance of the few lit up areas around St Helier to depict this futuristic vision that i have for the parish. I think that along with my specific location consideration and editing I have really been able to show my views on how the future should look. If i were to do this project again I think I would have a closer focus in on the locals of St Helier and how they use the area on a daily basis. This would give me and the viewers of my project an understanding of how the area can be improved to benefit the majority of the people in St Helier other than just my opinion.

Contact Sheet 

For this shoot I wanted to go when the weather was slightly overcast and not too sunny otherwise I would get reflection off the windows of some of the buildings which I thought might ruin some of the shots. But the sun did come out but it didn’t effect the overall look of the image and i did get some successful shots that I will be able to use.

Images from the shoot that I plan to develop 

For this shoot I wanted to focus on the buildings of the finance center, as the architecture of these buildings is almost geometrical. But I mainly wanted to go and photography for the symbol reference of the images, as my idea when editing the images this to insert stereo-typically, ‘grandma’ wallpaper. As the connotation of grandparents is that they are warm, welcoming and kind. Whereas the feeling around the finance industry is that it is a harsh cold and mean environment which  is only centered on creating money and not the employee that work of the companies. So I think that having the two ideas coming together would create a clear sense of juxtaposition.  Which might make the work look  at first abstract and the audience might not understand at first, but that is what i wanted to do with this project was too make the audience stop and think about what jersey/ St Helier really is. Rather than the picture perfect images that jersey is usually associated too.

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.

Posted by Martin Toft on Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Mood Board For my Zine 

Different Possible Layouts 

• Not sticking to the traditional page format and mixing text and images together. I think that this layout would be good if I wanted to give some context for an image. Or if an image was abstract and I wanted to give my reasons the changes that Ihave made to the image.

• Full Image bleeds over a double page spread, I really like the way that these images look, as I think that this layout allows the viewer to see all of the details in the image, so I think that for most of my landscape images I will display them in this format.

• Two separate images paired up next to each other.I think that this design layout will look good with some images, but with others will clash so this format will be a process of trial and error to see if I like the overall composition of the images together.

• Boarders. I think that I will use this design layout as it gives some breathing space to the zine as a lot of the images are full bleeds it can become a bit intense when viewing the images so have some blank space will help to give some contrast in the zine

For most of the layout of the zine, I have decided to use the full bleed layout as I personally didn’t like the look of when there was lots of plain space. So on all of the landscape images, I have filled up all of the available spaces using the full bleed design layout which i think looks best for landscape images. On the four portrait images. I again got a ‘reto’ style of wallpaper that was relatively plain so it wouldn’t distract from the image which is meant to be the main focus of the page. I first went into Photoshop and brought down the vibrancy of the image and the saturation, so that the image of be less intense and easier for the viewer to focus on the main image, then places it behind the images. I wanted it to have the look as if the central image had been pinned up onto a wall. As the magazine is full on and there isn’t a lot of plain space I thought that having a subtle background behind the images gives it a nice finish.

This is my final layout design for my zine, for this project I wanted to blend modern landscapes with more retro/old fashion wallpaper designs. Which was the idea that I got when on location in st Helier and what I noticed from my photos. That St Helier is trying to push its self-forward to become and very advanced tow., but you can still see the older parts of st Helier clinging on.  Using this idea, I then I wanted to combine archival images, with the ‘retro’ styles that I had found, so in my images there would be a contrast of two and old which was the main idea that I wanted to  portray with this project.

Zine 1

I find the content of this zine visually inspiring due to the narrative and messages it conveys. From my interpretations, I believe the photographer is using the juxtaposition between the rural areas and urbanized area.  This allows the viewer to see what we are destroying and the potential locations to next be lost.

Zine 2

I was intrigued by this zine design due to the continuous theme running through. I like how the images are so similar yet different too and the night photography is pleasing to me. I like the bright colors and and reflections which I think give a futuristic feel to the images.

Zine 3

The main focus of me looking at this zine was to explore different ways of presenting my images other than the typical way of one image per page. I like how the zine has white space below the images which could be room for text or even room for the viewer to engage by imagining what could be there if the image was full size. It also gives the viewer a chance to stop and feel relaxed when looking through.

The photographer Albert Smith

Albert Smith is the best known and probably the most prolific of Jersey’s early photographers, although a significant number of pictures attributed to him, and particularly those used for his postcards, were taken not by him, but by employees or by Ernest Baudoux, whose business he acquired when he arrived in Jersey from London

Thousands of his images survive as glass plate negatives and subjects include studio portraits and portraits of cattle. Many of his views were sold as postcards. He and his staff not only worked on commissions, but also captured many scenes of island life and events of historical importance. Nearly 2000 of his images can be seen on line in the photographic archive of la Société Jersiaise, out of a total of nearly 3,300 held in the archive.

Among these are undoubtedly many not taken by Smith. Not only, as mentioned above, are there images acquired from Ernest Baudoux, and others taken by employees of Smith, but some are also dated after he closed his business in 1931. It is not clear whether he continued to take photographs after that date, which are included in the Société Jersiaise collection, and private collections, or whether they were taken by staff. There is little doubt that they have been correctly attributed either to Smith or a (former) employee, because there are photographs, bearing his signature logo, taken at the Battle of Flowers in the mid-1930s and at the opening of Jersey Airport in 1937.

Smith published a book in about 1910 of 102 Views of Jersey and the Channel Islands, which includes pictures of early Battles of Flowers, and a selection of pictures of Guernsey. Among other advertisements in the book is one for his own series of Hartmann’s coloured Jersey postcards.

Image Analysis Of Albert Image