I plan to use about 4-8 images which summarise my work from my previous projects and my photobook project. I want to use some images I took for the Anthropocene project as well as my photobook project.
Full Bleed
My full bleed image I want to use is from the Anthropocene project where I went to a reservoir and made the image black and white with high contrast with drama between black and white. I edited in the dark clouds at the top of the image to create further contrast
Montage
Above are two montages I made on photoshop from the images of my family albums I got from my grandmother. Before I put them on Lightroom I lowered the saturation to give them an older, retro feel so that it looks like a collage in a family album. I have included images of my Mum, Uncle, Grandparents, Great Grandparents and also my distant Cousins. I have mixed all of the family together and haven’t separated into different sides/ parts to show connection to family.
For this photoshoot I have decided to explore the ways in which specific abandonments can reflect the worth of communities which were there previously. I have decided to take photos on the abandoned hotel in bouley bay once called Water’s Edge Hotel which was once a place where so called ‘rich’ people gathered as a communities for holidays, birthdays, weddings etc. Furthermore now there is plans for one individual to knock down the old hotel and turn it into a multi billion pound house, this will therefore completely takeaway the minimal community from that area which there was left as well as memories which the hotel has connections with. I also feel that taking pictures of specific abandonments may refelct Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre’s project ‘The ruins of Detroit’
SHOOT 1 –
Shoot 1
I’m going to use photoshop to adapt/manipulate several photographs in different ways as I feel they may add more detail if I neutralise the tones or adapt the photos to black and white. However I’m going to go back to the Water’s edge hotel to capture more pictures due to the fact that I feel that seeing it on a later date to these photographs which I have already taken may change my opinions and alter the way in which I take my photographs.
SHOOT 2 –
BEST IMAGES –
Overall I feel that within this shoot which I conducted I have successfully shown the power in which this hotel has within it and the abandonment which is clearly reflected by the way in which it has been left for several years. Additionally I also feel that the communities that used to go visit the hotel may struggle seeing one construct and demolish to rebuild a house for one superior individual.
