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Our Group Ideas
Our group have decided to focus on how Jersey’s community is a strong, eco friendly environment. Here are some images of how we as a group may picture our short film may turn out to be.
Jersey Museum consists of stories and items that relates to how life was in the past for jersey with mostly expressing how the people themselves made Jersey how it is to this day. Whether these people are locals or immigrants, all took part in the growth in Jersey. In fact, if it wasn’t for the immigrants coming over to Jersey for work, Jerseys economic funds wouldn’t be as wealthy as it would be to this day. Religious/ political refugees, economic migrants that arrived to support new industries such as oyster fishing, ship building, construction and agricultural workers, or tourism all made Jersey to be a financially stable island.
mood-board of exhibit
Here are some images of Jersey museum. We as a group of photographers explored and learned many new and interesting facts of the people and families that have lived or are still living in Jersey. These stories written on the walls, in books and expressed as images and items really emphasise how far Jersey has came with immigrants and locals having or choosing to live in Jersey in the passed and present.
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.’
-Research
16th and 17th Century – Religious Refugees
The French Wars of Religion took place during the 16th century between Catholic and Protestant (Huguenots). Many Huguenots fled France to Protestant Countries. So many Hugenots fled to Jersey at this time that an extra market day was put in place and was introduced.
The Edict of Nantes in 1598 granted the Huguenots the right to practice their religion without persecution from the State. This was revoked in 1685 and a large number of Protestants left France over the next two decades with several thousand finding new homes in Jersey. They left without money, but took with them many skills, establishing small businesses in the Island.
These so called “immigrants” brought not only benefits to themselves with starting life again, but benefits to the island. hundreds and thousands of people that fled from France were employed to farming ect.
In these last few lessons as a class we created a small tapestry made of the materials being different fabrics that relates to an artist we found and chose in an art gallery book. This artist we chose had a passion for feminists and women rights in the topic of sexuality and events that women go through during the stages of life.
I have decided to base this photoshoot on the waste that is thrown out into the ocean. I collected waste from the beaches such as the old fishing rope and plastic parts. Then to get an ocean look towards the images I submerged a blue piece of card underwater in a sink with the rubbish floating around. The beauty in the flower placed is to replicate the oceans goods but then is shown to be surrounded by waste that humans produce. This is exactly showing and describing what Anthropocene is seen to be.
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Editing
For these images i did not do much editing. I played around with the brightness and contrast levels but apart from that I wanted to keep it more creative than a fake image.
Outcomes
Relating to Mandy Barkers Work
My final images I took are seen to be describing what plastic and waste products are dong to the small beauty in which our oceans hold. As the rope and debris submerge the flower the image becomes more scruffy and out of place. This is what rubbish in the real ocean would come across to be seen as but even bigger and more.
Linking to a Photographer
-Mandy Barker
My Work On The Left …….. Mandy’s Work On The Right
Both images above are based on the idea of waste that has been abandoned in the ocean. Mandy’s work has been completely created using photo-shop and that is how her images have been made to look as if they are floating around in the ocean in big bundle of waste. Although that is true, even trying to get an image in the best quality to what they look like now would be impossible.
Evaluation
This photo-shoot was quick when coming down to taking the actual images. It was inventive and a different way to explore ocean pollution. These images I took were to raise awareness on how the beauty in which out oceans hold is being quickly destroyed. If I was to do this photo-shoot again I would use different objectives and explore different way in which I cold use photo-shop to create images closer to Mandy’s style.
To relate to the topic and theme of Anthropocene, I have chosen to do a photo-shoot which explores the beauty of plastic bags but the destruction that they seem to be doing to our world. I will be using the studio in school to take photos and will be using spot lights to create different colours that flow through the plastic. I will be taking photos from the inside of the plastic bags and also the outside but trying to show less of any background.
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Editing
Changing the offset was the main change for many of my photos followed by the exposure on photoshop and on camera.
next for the colour I heightened the vibrancy to get the extra glow on the images. This made the images look as if they were more environmental such as the blue bag above. It replicates the ocean and waves.
finally I cropped out any extra image I didn’t need and played around with the levels of light to make the images seem interesting to look at.
Outcomes
These images above were created using an old plastic bag ripped up with two spot lights either side with coloured gels such as blue and red. I chose to do these colours as I wanted the images not to only look abstract and colourful, but for the image to have a meaning or story behind it. For example, the redness seems to be beating as a heart through the back of the bag which has some sort of destructive energy to it. Then to the left of the images is where the pretty blue crumpled plastic which almost acts like a wave in the ocean. The image is expressing how plastic is effecting the beauty in our world such as a wave in the ocean.
This image above in red clearly relates to the theme of Anthropocene as it is describing the destruction of plastic and how damaging it can be. The red gloomy look makes the plastic looks as if it is deadly and is ready to do damage. The crisp edges seem to be sharp and aggressive.
Linking To A Photographer
VILDE ROLFSEN –
Vilde Rolfsen On The Left ……. My Work On The Right
As we can see Vilde’s work has more lines and creases that flow through the plastic bag than mine. She has used more light and a high quality camera. But both images has similarities such as the image is taken from the start of the bag, and straight though the inside. Colour has been a big part of Vilde’s work and I can see why as when reflective colour to the inside of a plastic bag it creates beautiful patterns.
Evaluation
This photoshoot turned out pretty well with my outcomes being at good quality and easy to relate to another photographer who explores the same objects with them linking to Anthropocene. If I was to do this photo-shoot again I would take more images than I did and maybe bring different materials into the studio.
Mandy Barker is a British photographer. She is mostly known for work with marine plastic debris. She has worked alongside scientists in hopes of bringing awareness to the mass amount of plastic that is floating around in our oceans. A lot of Mandy Barkers work has been manipulated and photo shopped to look as if these plastics are on going in the ocean. I will be focusing on her microscopic work below where she photographs small living marine organisms to be looking as such debris of plastics floating in the ocean.
-Analysis
This image above Mandy has used a microscope to photograph marine micro organisms that live throughout the ocean. This images are supposed to represent the plastic wastage in the oceans due to humans. As we can see this image in particular is similar to a plastic bag which floats through the depths of the water. Mandy jellyfish are mistaken for plastic bags in the oceans and i think this is where Mandy wanted to emphasis the effects of plastic. Enveloping black space evokes the deep oceans beneath. Presenting new ‘specimens’ created from recovered debris, serves as a metaphor to the use of plastic and the Anthropocene. Movements of the recovered plastic objects, recorded in camera over several seconds, represent the movement of individual plankton in the water. Current scientific research has found that plankton ingest micro plastic particles, mistaking them for food, and at the bottom of the food chain they are themselves a crucial source of food for many of the larger creatures. The potential impact on marine life and ultimately man itself is currently of vital concern. Mandy has made not only interesting images to look at when seeing plankton through a microscope, but a good story and image of what the effects of plastic is doing to the smallest of living creatures.
Vilde is an Norwegian photographer which she extracts beauty from discarded plastic bags while raising awareness about throw-away culture. This topic links to Anthropocene as for the issues caused by plastic throw away each day due to humans. The destruction we cause to our planet, land and ocean, by the use and waste of plastics and typically plastic bags, is what Vilde wants to express through her work. She does this by exposing all different plastic bags from a macroscopic perspective. Her photography is seen to be an abstract approach to the topic of Anthropocene. Here are some examples of her work…
IMAGES BY – VILDE ROLFSEN
-Analysis
As we can see Vilde likes to make as such another world to be seen inside these plastic bags. The dynamic colors that flow through the creases in the bags, as if they were veins, and the way in which the bags have their own sense of mood and atmosphere. They almost relate to having a life such as a human. This links to Anthropocene as the plastic bags photographed are there to raise awareness of the wastage of plastic bags and also how they relate to humans. The abstract touch to these images can be seen as the camera quality is in good focus when us close and how the plastic bag fills the image with different turns and bands. Looking at the image also seems to be looking through a oddly looking cave with vibrant colors that strike through. Light floods through from lots of angles and darker areas are formed. The photos are made up of lots of different lines that are in a sense crushed, and flow in different directions. Vilde’s work is different and uncommon which makes you question what you are actually looking at when looking at first glance.
NAOMI WHITE
Naomi is a photographer who is working on ideas to express the plastic crisis that is happening daily on earth due to humans. Similarly to Vilde, Naomi photographs plastic bags in a beauty way. Using the color of the bag to be vibrant and eye catching she uses a studio to capture different angles and ways in which plastic bags can be photographed.
-Analysis
Naomi has a more outside approach to plastic bags rather than inside to Vilde’s work. The colors flowing through the creases of the bags yet again is what makes these bags interesting to look at as a photo. They almost look like other worldly creatures. Naomi has chosen to photograph plastic bags to raise awareness of the use of plastics and what it does to harm the earth. Her images seem to represent some sort of destruction with the way the camera has captured the lighting that floods through the loose and thin parts of the bags. I think Naomi’s work relates to theme of Anthropocene because she is trying to show to beauty within the colors of the bags but at the same time they have a sense of destruction and ruin. This relates to the way how man kind is destroying the world with our day to day lives, weather that is using the smallest thing such as a plastic bag
Anthropocene comes under the term of meaning – “The period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.” This topic can be explored in many different ways as a photographer. Linking all different human activity into photos and what has happened over time between human and nature. The bad of us humans influence the majority of photographers to take images and express what the world has come to with the world having negative impacts on the environment such as over population, pollution, de-forestation, plastic crisis, climate change, the evolution of technology, hunting, urbanization etc. These negative impacts can be a good source to photograph. But Anthropocene photography doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom with the change in the world due to humans. Creativeness and intriguing images can link human and nature together and see the similarities they have. Some examples below show the positive and negative sides to what Anthropocene can be expressed as…
Anthropocene is known to be about nature and the impacts due to humans, but not all images have to be landscape or only show what the issue is. For example, an images of cut down trees from a forest represents de-forestation. Anthropocene photography can link to portraiture which describes what humans are typically doing in our day to day life to cause Anthropocene. Examples of portrait Anthropocene is seen below..
This images may not be directly made to express Anthropocene and seem to be photo-shoots for fashion but they link to the meaning of Anthropocene for sure. This is seen by the way the photographer has used their model to use plastics, metals to cover themselves which indicates what use these materials become to humans when wasted which is nothing. Photoshop with the two pictures of the guy suggests how nature links to man kind and how similar we are to one another. It is a good outcome of photos when physically linking nature to humans and it is something i might base my own work on.
Where – This photoshoot will be taken around Hautlieu and highlands.
What- I will be taking photographs of buildings and some 2D walls etc.
When- I will be doing this photo-shoot in the day time with the most light I could use.
How- This photos are taken head hight with the camera facing dead straight or angling upwards to windows and trees. The camera settings are such as- exposure – 80 – IOS – 400
Why- I am taking this photoshoot to capture some images to relate to the new topographic idea of photographs.
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Edits
First of all , I started off with heightening the exposure level as well as creating more contrast with the blacks found in the lines of the buildings. Next I changed the dehaze amount in the image to make the image look more interesting to look at. The shine on the vents I make more clear but enough to look natural. The contrast and exposure within the clouds I have changed to look more exciting and natural.
Outcomes
Evaluation
The outcome of these images relate to Lewis Baltz photography style. This is because he bases his work on 2D subjects such as walls of buildings, door ways, corner of buildings and most of his work is based in black and white. As for some of my work turning out to be better based in colour, some images such as the door ways are edited to black and white which links to Lewis’ style. The contrast in my images are high to express where the strong shadows are formed and where the highlights can be seen. Building seem to have a wide range of lines and shapes to be captured within the walls and windows. This makes a really nice 2D surface to photograph as edges and flat surfaces can be completely different shades to each other. If I was to do this photo-shoot again I would explore some more interesting areas to photograph such as town or bigger buildings such as a block of flats.
Rut Blees Luxemburg is a German-born photographer. Her technique is to take photographs at night, mostly exploring the urban landscape. Reflection, bright lights, and buildings all seek within her work with a theme of urban photography. Some examples of her work is below…
Ideas Of Where Rut Blees Takes Photos….
Analysis…
This photograph by Rut has been photographed in London streets. The orange glow and rough surface of street suggests this image was taken of a alley way. An uneven surface and gloomy setting suggests unease in the image, as if it was not a safe place to be. darker shadows surround the sides of the image with light reflecting from the puddles. More darker shades overall the light that floods in the image. In all Ruts photography there seems to be a theme of capturing a orange and yellow glow from the street light hitting different surfaces. This may be happening as for the light mode that he has set his camera on. As his work is always set at night with using street lights and no life to be seen in his photography, this indicates that he is expressing emptiness. This is seen with the image above as the alley way seems to be abandoned. A low exposure and average IOS balance captures the image nicely to the extent of not making it too dark but light enough for the cracks and bumps in the tarmac to be seen.
