HOUSING CRISIS: A topic which I am highly interested in and am willing to explore is the housing crisis which affects a large population of Jersey. Not only the immigrants but young people and the elderly all face institutional discrimination which makes it extremely difficult to get on the property ladder or be able to find housing in Jersey. There is an extreme lack of affordable housing for low income families and young people alike, who start out on the bottom earning minimum wage at the start of their careers.
NOSTALGIA: with the use of film, an older method of photography, I am hoping to capture images that capture a nostalgic and reminiscing feel. The fuzziness and grain which can be captured using this flash provokes ideas of the old and outdated, much like the housing in Jersey, lacking houses and slats which are safe and regulated for people to live in.
CONTROL: the lack of control within the Jersey housing market means that landlords are able to set prices ad regulate the market as they please, often providing overpriced and unsuitable living conditions for the families which will be moving there. A large part of this study is to highlight an area of Jersey life which impacts the lower and working class which suffer as a consequence of politicians and the rich.
Bibliography:
Simon Morley (2010), THE SUBLIME, London: Whitechapel Gallery
Critic Simon Morley discusses: “The sublime experience is fundamentally transformative, about the relationship between disorder and order, and the disruption of the stable coordinates of time and space” (Morley 2010:12).
Bright, S. and Van Erp, h.(2019), Photography Decoded. London: Octopus Publishing House
After analyzing various artists, I have drawn a lot of inspiration from Jeff wall. I personally really like his approach to tableaux photography and his ability to capture a moment by reconstructing it in a live setting, as well as his attention to detail. I am particularly inspired by his image “Milk” due to the display of emotion that Wall has been able to capture. The idea of the erupting milk carton has inspired me to reproduce images in this style, utilizing various objects to use as a representation of a metaphor of inner emotion. The explosion of the milk carton can be seen as an explosion of inner anger and frustration. I want to portray inner emotion through the use of inanimate objects to show feelings of Occupation Vs Liberation within a person in terms of how they feel mentally.
I would like to photograph my subjects in environments where they may be experiencing these emotions, such as out partying, feeling a sense of freedom and liberty, or behind closed doors, feeling occupied by their own minds. I would plan out every element of my shoots, such as time of day, outfit of my subject and their exact body positioning and facial expression, reflective of Walls highly meticulous tableaux shoots. I therefore intend to create work inspired by Walls tableaux approach to portraiture and I would like to incorporate the themes seen in “Milk” as I find them very intriguing and a great way of portraying a story.
