To start off this Anthropocene project I originally believed that with the Landscape objective I took I was going to be photographing things such as cliff paths and more nature based things due to choosing George Marazkis as one of my chosen photographers to do a case study on, however after researching different photographers I found Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre and really liked their images and take on Anthropocene. After looking into their projects I decided to take inspiration from them and take images of vacant buildings. Doing this project in their style proved to be more difficult than I originally anticipated, as they travelled around the whole of America which has approximately 19 million vacant homes and buildings while Jersey’s statistics are significantly lower with only 1397 vacant homes and buildings; most of which are boarded up or still in there original state and just temporarily empty rather than abandoned and decaying like the buildings in Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre’s projects like ‘The Ruins of Detroit’ which is mainly large abandoned theatres and such. My original intentions with this project were to take images of St. Saviour’s hospital as it is one of the largest if not the largest abandoned buildings on the island. However when I got to the hospital to take pictures the whole building was boarded up so I had to change my plan. I then researched vacant buildings in Jersey and came across The Waters Edge Hotel in Bouley Bay which first closed for guests in 2008 but continued to run the bar and poolside restaurant up until 2015. When I arrived at the hotel it wasn’t boarded up and the doors were unlocked and most windows were open. The hotel has 50 bedrooms however I only took images of the first and second floor as most of the stairs and floors were decaying and unsafe. I believe this photoshoot was one of the most successful parts of this project. Another photoshoot that I believed went well and produced successful images is the one at La Collette recycling centre where they have towers of rusted fridges and freezers. Although the photoshoot at the hotel went well and produced some successful images I do think that because most images are of plain abandoned rooms they are difficult to use to develop and experiment with on photoshop.

Final Image Displays