For my first final piece, I cut out the outline of my grandma with a stanley knife. I then got a piece of plain white A4 paper, spray glued it and then added the gold glitter dust to it. I then spray glued the back of the photo and then layered it on top of the glitter paper. I then used red thread and sewed an outline of my grandma. I then layered the photo on a piece of black paper and made a border for the image. 

For these images of my dad, I used a stanley knife to cut out the outline of my dad. I then spray glued him onto the original image, and then sewed a clock and an outline around the smaller image of my dad. I then spray glued the image on top of a piece of black paper

For my final image I used a stanley knife to cut around the outline of the original image. I then spray glued the original image into the reworked image, and then sewed around the children in the reworked image.  
I then spray glued the image on top of a piece of black paper 

I am pleased with my final piece, I have produced a scrapbook/photo album of holiday photos of my chosen destinations of Jersey and Thailand. My concept is of the journey of these two places in the world of tourism and economic incline. I focused on how Thailand has taken a pathway of in the short-term a success as after the tsunami they managed to get back on the horse and rebuild their lives, but in the long term their argent need to return to normal life has destroyed their once bespoke and isolated scenery, now all it is a tourism feeding ground, the sustainability of their pathway ceases to exist. Whereas Jersey’s plan, although we are running out for houses to provide for people we are thinking of our landscape on the coast and the importance of it’s preservation. My concept hasn’t always been clear, at the start I was steering towards the idea of time, then I thought about the concept of travelling, with led me to my final concept. Overall the theme of ‘journeys and pathways’ is a reasonably broad area and I found it could be easily linked landscapes, which is ideal for Jersey, so I went on my fourth photo shoot to my favorite beach and the most popular tourist destination, St Brelades Bay. Even before knowing the theme I wanted to explore landscape, as I hadn’t done any to my best standard throughout the duration of the coursework as it was focused on abstract and portrait. I took my first inspiration from Mark Powers when it came to my Jersey photos as I wanted the focus to be on the sea and how powerful it is in its looks and movement, but then as I progressed I veered away from Power’s ideas of how dependent people are on the ‘shipping forecast’ and more into how the people of Jersey are dependent on it’s beaches and weather because it’s our islands main marketing point for tourism, which is a huge sector in our economy. When taking my photos in Thailand I took inspiration from my case study photographer, Andrew Quilty and how he took photos in artificial lighting rather than the sun and I wanted to do this as a contrasting point to my Jersey photos which are in completely natural lighting from the sun. As well as that I wanted to highlight like Quilty the culture in the country I was photographing and how it’s completely different to ours. For instance how night life for locals is so important, it’s the time when you get the most customers, as it is when it’s cool enough to actually be away for air conditioning. Night markets in particular are very popular, where fakes, food and merchandise are sold, to locals these stalls may be their only source of income, which supports my concept that Thailand is overwhelmingly reliant on tourism. My editing process could have been made more complex if I were to have done it again but I feel that overall the simplicity of it worked well with my final display as it looked like genuine holiday photos a person would print off. I did go through problems when editing my photos as it was pointed out to me that although the photos were clear on my computer, they won’t be as bright when printed off, so I had to rethink my selection process and also consider the images with reasonable amounts of light in order to have the best outcome when in print form. This meant that I had to experiment a lot with exposure and brightness and I found it challenging to be able to keep the quality of the photo as well as increasing exposure, but I worked around it to create 12 final outcomes for my Thailand night photo shoot. If I were to have more time I maybe would have looked more in depth into Thailand and how it affected the people who leaved their and their personal accounts of what they had to go through to get back on their feet. In conclusion, I am happy with my final outcome and the concept I have based it on and in my opinion the theme the exam board set was very ideal for me and I found it enjoyable to come up with a concept and execute it.

The following are photos of my prints after I have framed them.

The following 2 images are of two more images which I have just stuck onto foam board due to running short of time, they are also printed with a gloss finish.

At the beginning of the Journeys and Pathways exam I wasn’t sure which subject/topic to focus my time on. Therefore I started mind-mapping and creating a mood-board of my ideas. Initially I was thinking about urban landscape and street photography, which I did end up doing for a part of my project. Later in the project I wanted to move on to a more art related topic such as street art and how it has evolved. I also initially wanted to do some work on Alice Wielinga and make some comparative photo-montages of expectation vs reality of Jersey, however I didn’t end up making a response to that as I wanted to focus more on the art side of things and reworking photos as that’s what I am more passionate about and enjoy more.

My first photo-shoot was for developing the archive photos into something more. I went into the same places that the photo had been taken in 40 years earlier. I planned to print out the two versions of the 3 different photos and then to take some acetate and cut them to size so that they would fit over the modern photos. Next I took a fine tipped white ink pen and drew over the outlines of everything in the modern photo this was inspired by my case study on Gosia Wlodarzak. Once I had finished this I displayed it over the top of the archive photo, however just off at an angle so it could show how much the same place has changed overtime. The pieces of acetate didn’t exactly match the photos which is what I predicted would happen, however I still really like the way it has turned out.

After this, I moved on to looking at art on the streets (or the lack of it) in Jersey. At first I wanted to go out and try to picture local murals/graffiti around in town. Unfortunately I couldn’t really find any and most of the ones I did find were discoloured and old. So I came up with the idea of just taking photos of some streets and whatever else I thought was interesting and drawing over the top of it. As a part of my response to the Journeys and Pathways title I wanted to explore topics such as street art and how it has evolved over the years. I also wanted to experiment further with editing my photos by hand and using different mediums such as paint, coloured pencils and cutting/ re sticking things together, this was in order to show what usual everyday streets in Jersey could potentially look like if more street art was incorporated. Therefore, when I was searching for artists and photographers to make case studies on and develop from I saw some of Heath Ledger’s art and photography work in amongst these. I have always really loved his acting work as he was very talented but until recently I wasn’t aware that he was also a keen artist. Overall, I did really like how my set of images turned out, I think I researched into Ledger enough and acknowledge the methods and mediums that he used to create these, but also added in my own personal touches, drawings etc. of what I wanted as well.