For this shoot, I walked around the Millennium park area and other parts of the French/Portuguese quarters. Here I photographed French/Portuguese shops, businesses and workers, as well as areas and evidence of a sense of community within the sector.
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This is my favourite image because of the candid aspects of the photograph. The worker is busy unaware of the camera, along with the person in the background glancing over at the camera wondering what is going on. The bright red letter boxes along with the reflective vest contrast to the earthy and natural colour of the surrounding buildings. This image used an aperture of f.9 with a short shutter speed to compensate for the bright natural light at the time. I also like the perspective that the photo was taken at, it creates lines leading down the road in the background that add depth to the image.
The exhibition states; ‘Every Jersey resident has an immigration story – whether their family came here 500 years or five years ago. This exhibition explores some of these stories and the ways in which immigration has shaped and influenced the Island we know today.’
The town area of jersey is split into different quarters, the Merchant Quarters, the French/Portuguese Quarters and the British expats/ wealthy residents
I took my first photoshoot around the French/Portuguese sector:
Here I photographed many small shops and cafes with French and Portuguese owners and often selling French/Portuguese food. I also found many people of Portuguese background working together as a community in shops, cafes and other areas like construction and painting.
Seeing these different communities inspired me to research my background and find out my heritage. I found out that up to my great grandparents I am fully Jersey/Jersey French with my surname (Jeanne) being a Jersey French name. I used Archive and Collections Online to find this out and where my relative are from.
These different sectors and communities give the island diversity, and this is originally from immigration throughout the centuries. A detailed map of immigration to and from Jersey over the years can be found on this Jersey Migration Map.
Yener Torun was born in Turhal, Turkey, in 1982. At Istanbul Technical University he studied architecture then in 2014 he started a photography project on his Instagram account @cimkedi. On this account he focuses on building which are less know and side streets of his adopted hometown. his popularity has grown through the years to major media outlets such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, CBS News, and El Pais Semanal have covered his work. His work typically flatten space to focus on emphasizing lines and colours over depth.
In this photograph Yener Torun has the clear focus on the zigzag lines and how the two colours meet but don’t mix. The image is effective on how lined up the colours are and how vibrant both colours are but don’t drown out the other one. The texture of the image is very smooth and soft looking with very minimalistic patterns such as the pink with white lines and the orange and white checkers in the window.
Albert Smith
Albert Smith originally came from Liverpool but had worked at a studio in Waterloo. In 1892 he started a business in Jersey on New Street which he maintained until 1931. He captured many scenes of island life and events of historical importance which many of his views were sold as postcards. 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. All his photographs were taken to sell and, in addition to those in negative format in the Société Jersiaise collection.
“A typically posed Smith photograph of a carriage outing” this photo shows a busy setting that wasn’t set up to look like this but asked them if he could take a photo. The old photo expresses the fashion of the time and what a typical day out would look like. With the positioning of the people shows how men were gentlemen and would get out their seats for the photo whereas the women were to stay where they were. As the photo is mostly people there is hardly any focus on the background such as the tree behind them.
First I put all my photos onto lightroom then I go through them either to flag them if I like them or reject them if I don’t like them or the image isn’t right.
With the flagged images I colour code the best images red and leave the images I don’t want with no colour. With images similar to each other I would put them next to each other to compare them.
Then I narrow down the images again by keeping the best images red and with a selection on three images I colour coded them green as if the number of images where to be cut down.
Which then I transferred the new images into a folder so then it would be easier to transfer them again into a folder on my desktop.
I then went through the images and edited them making the colours bolder and brighter, adjusting the way they look to have a more centred image.
I finally put the finished images into a folder on my desktop which I will then put them together to create a zine.
With identity and community we went out and took some photos of the community. The photos where from different parts of St Helier with a mix of popular, tourist attractions and the less popular parts. We also went into the Jersey Museum Exhibition where we took photos of the Exhibition and the information on the house. With this photoshoot, we uploaded them onto Lightroom which we will then edit and create a zine of Identity and Community.
These photos will be organised and reject the photos which are blurry or not in focus. To do that we would use rejecting and flagging to organise inn a simple yet effective way. As I have the flagged images I will then go through them and label then red for the disregarded photos, yellow for maybe and green for the chosen ones to be used in the zine.
