For this shoot, we went around the sports block and round highlands.
While walking around the sports building I focused on the grids and vents on the side of the building. The sports block is very monotone which relates back to New Topographics, where images were taken with the main subject of man made buildings rather than natural landscapes.
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Street Art
Definition: Artwork that is created in a public space, typically without official permission
Street art is very common in urban areas. It is also done for multiple reasons;fun, advertising and they can also have a political message behind them.
For example, the image on the left was made as a mural after the Manchester Bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in 2017. The bees around the heart represent the 22 victims of the attack.
The middle image is an image of David Bowie that was painted onto the side of an abandoned outhouse in the middle of Manchester.
The image on the right is of an advertisement for Adidas painted on the side of two shipping containers.
Images
Architectural Images
Often, industrial photographs show people building and making things – the aim is to capture the manufacturing process and the laborious jobs that are performed by workers.
Contact Sheets
Rated Images
Final Images
I put all my final images in black and white, I feel like this went well with some of the new topographics work that we looked at before. It also emphasises how all the colours are monotone and dull.
I focused on the man-made aspects of the buildings and the surrounding areas. I took images of things that had repeating patterns and symmetry to emphasise the fact that only man made things have perfect lines. Straight lines do not exist in the natural world.