In the course of daily life, individuals and organizations create and keep information about their personal and business activities. Archivists identify and preserve these documents of lasting value.

These records — and the places they are kept — are called “archives.” Archival records take many forms, including correspondence, diaries, financial and legal documents, photographs, and moving image and sound recordings. All state governments as well as many local governments, schools, businesses, libraries, and historical societies, maintain archives.

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Your task – BLOG POST

The images above are Archival Images from iconic areas of Jersey…and these areas have changed over time.

• Find archival images that correspond to your own landscape photography and contrast and compare. Include any info you can find about the image itself / photographer / time period etc
• OR…you may find that you are intrigued by a particular landscape image and want to respond to it and create a comparison / composite image. For this you must conduct a photo-shoot aiming to document the area from a similar viewpoint and edit your images accordingly
• OR…you may want to explore the concept of JUXTAPOSING Old and new parts of Jersey…either by photographing them in situ, or creating a composite image using photoshop

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Public archives in Jersey

Jersey Archives:  Since 1993 Jersey Archive has collected over 300,000 archival records and it is the island’s national repository holding archival material from public institutions as well as private businesses and individuals. To visit click here

Jersey Archive can offer guidance, information and documents that relate to all aspects of the Island’s History. It also holds the collections of the Channel Islands Family History Society.

Societe Jersiaise: Photographic archive of 80,000 images dating from the mid-1840s to the present day. 35,000 historical images in the Photographic Archive are searchable online here.

Societe Jersiaise also have an extensive library with access to may publications and records relating to the island’s history, identity and geography. Click here

Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, hosted by the Société Jersiaise aims to promote contemporary photography through an ongoing programme of exhibitions, education and commissions.

The Jersey Evening Post Archives CLICK HERE

The Archisle project connects photographic archives, contemporary practice and experiences of island cultures and geographies through the development of a space for creative discourse between Jersey and international practitioners.

Link: http://www.archisle.org.je/

In response to the work of Fay Godwin I drove to the sand dunes in St Ouen just before sunset in order to get photos with the backdrop of the golden hour. Like Godwin I positioned myself at the top of one of the sand dunes

PLAN

Who	What	When	Where	Why
N/A	Sandunes + Sunset	Wednesday at sunset	Top of the Sandunes	To get the colour of golden hour and replicate the work of Fay Godwin

SHOOT

EDITING

For this project I used lightroom for the first time. I experimented a lot with settings such as highlights, shadows and black and whites as well as some preset features such as filters e.g matte, or, high contrast.

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Out of all my images, these two are my favourite.

I like how through lightroom I have been able to completely change the feel of these photos as they were all taken in daylight but due to editing look as if it was night. They are not as in your face and gaudy as my sunset images and instead have a more subtle, blue toned look.

A montage is; the technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole.

John Stezaker is a British photographer known for his innovative and interesting photographical montages. These montages are very simple, made by splicing two different photos together.

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For my own montage I have decided to do a more contemporary graffiti style photo. To do this I am using a photo previously taken for a multi exposure project and printing another black and white to cut out facial features and stick onto the original image. After this I am planning to draw doodles and speech over the image.

Here is the original image that i’m using as a canvas for my work

Here is a photo of my image, photographed on a white backdrop.

Using Photoshop I cropped this image to remove the wonky white backdrop and also upped the vibrancy and saturation slightly.

I really like the way this image has turned out as it fits the punk vibe I was going for however I think it would’ve been better if I had done the writing in a darker pen or taken the photo with better lighting in order to make it more visable.

Double/ multi exposure

Double/ multi exposure is the combination of two or more exposures to create a single image. The exposure values may not be exact creating a ghost like figure.

Muhammed Faread

Muhammed Faread is an American/ Egyptian artist from Seattle, Washington state USA. He is a graphic designer, who is especially captivated by double exposure. Using double exposure, he explores the power of it as a form of visual poetry.

He has combined an image of a person with their hands over their face with one of their face and made it so that the image of their face is partially visible. The visibility is enough so that we can see his eyes, nose, mouth and ears.

My Edits

To make the images below, I had to get photos of the same subject in either the same or different positions, facial expressions and lighting color. I then dragged the images onto each other and changed the opacity of all the images except the back image so that it creates a ghostly shape and multiple colors.

The Best Image

The image above is the best because It has many different exposures which contrast different colours and subject positions. It creates a phantom subject which makes viewers think about which exposure is the real one. The different images used to make the image have different facial expressions showing the idea of putting on a face which is different to what she is actually feeling.

Fay Godwin was a British photographer known for her black-and-white landscapes of the British countryside and coast. Her first became interested in photography in the mid-1960s as he started taking photos from a young age which helped her career later on in his life. Personally I like the way in which all of his photographs are in black and white as it adds different characteristics. Additionally In several of her photos graph you can clearly see that she has chosen to take them on a bright day as you can see the sun shining through the clouds adding effect and details to her work. which may suggest that she enjoys taking photographs in the same weather conditions as well as lighting conditions.

IMAGE ANALYSIS

This photograph in which Godwin has taken has several leading lines through out which add key details and focuses. I personally feel that the main subject of this photograph is the horizon line which falls in the centre of where the photo was taken. She has taken this photo from a straight angle of what it looks to be a cliff path over viewing the reservoir. The relationship in which I feel that Fay Godwin has with the photograph is that she didn’t enjoy how the community were trying to take it away from the public and make it private land. I think the reason behind why she decided to title the image Winthrop Reservoir because her main view of the photograph would of been the reservoir in the distance which may have been the first thing that captured her attention. I feel as if the theme for this photograph is quite negative as the black and white tones create a sense of mystery. Additionally I also feel as the reason to why she put her photograph in black and white could be due to her trying to reflect her photographs to the Vietnam War as this was ongoing during her photography career. The tones of this photograph vary as you can see the harsh and dark tones on the hill to the right whereas on the left you can see the smooth and warm tones on the hill which could reflect the idea of two sides of the Vietnam War fighting against each other.

Editing

I used photoshop adjustments to alter the light and colour in each image, specifically brightness/contrast, exposure and vibrance. When editing them into black and white I changed the colour levels in each image to make the highlights and shadows more contrasting to each other. In Image 4 I used the clone tool to make the mud less bright as the light was reflecting off the mud and I wanted it to be darker.

Final Outcomes

A dictionary definition of Romanticism is worded as.. “Romanticism placed particular emphasis on emotion, horror, awe, terror and apprehension. Emotion and feeling were central not only to the creation of the work, but also in how it should be read.” Romanticism in landscape photography ideally is to capture an image which strongly represents not only one emotion, but feelings of the opposite to what is trying to be expressed. Romanticism also plays a part in expressing individualism. Some examples of Romanticism landscapes are seen below…

Emil Von Maltitz

Emil von Maltitz is an internationally recognized South African landscape photographer. His work bases on the more natural side of landscapes and how the camera can capture many dynamic areas of a setting. For his career of being a Photographer, he travels the world to take mostly landscape photographs. As being from South Africa, the landscape and nature surrounding him from young is what inspired him to capture these amazing sites that were discovered by him everyday. The romanticism theme in his work relates to emotion and feelings caught in the images colour, shapes, and landscape. Some examples of his work can be seen below –

Analysis

At first glance, this images seems to be dull, blank and just not busy or a lot going on. It seems. to have a cold atmosphere and feeling given off it. This is from the blue and grey sea and sky that fill majority of the image. But looking closer we see tints of greens and yellows in the distance of the sea and on the horizon. This brings a sense of happiness as well as the light white clouds that poke through the image above. The rocks below bring a warm feeling to the image as they are smooth and subtle. The sand blends carefully with the white mist that covers the sea. The clouds seem to dull around the edges. of the image into a darker grey and lighten to the middle. The sea seeming to be calm and smooth and anything, sits still giving off ore.

The lines in this image are faint and not easy to be noticed. The main darker and thicker lines are found in the main rock that faces the camera. More little and subtle lines are found in the lighter clouds above. Where the sky and the sea collide with each other (The horizon) Creates the most straightest and longest line in the image. The shapes formed in the clouds seem to be little circles along with more rectangle and square shaped rocks that fall at the bottom of the image. The texture of the rocks looks smooth due to the white mist that covers them thuroly.

The contrast of the white mist to the darker rocks and darker sea makes the rocks stand out in the image making them to be the objective of what is being photographed. As most of the colours blend and shade in with each other, this photograph has the emotion of being a calm and tranquil environment. The romanticism in this landscape can be described as the setting is all natural with colours and physical things. It shows different emotions when looked in depth but at first thought is an image to go to for a more relaxing and soothing feeling.

Fay Godwin (1931-2005) was a German-British photographer known for her natural landscape photography.

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Photo Analysis

The Remains of Elmet. Fay Godwin. 1979

KEYWORDS

Dark, Whimsical, Cold, Troubling

FORM

This photo is a landscape of sand dunes. The dunes themselves are very dark and imposing which is conflicting with my own experiences with sand dunes where dunes are though of as sunny and used by children to sled down. As far as the eye can see, this photo is surrounded by nature. Even as the dunes end they are enveloped by rolling fields emphasising a need for nature.The weather beaten and worn plank track insinuates that the dunes are well loved and visited regularly which gives the photo a whimsical and nostalgic aspect that contrasts with the dark and intimidating landscape. The sky is very foreboding and looks ready to thunder and rain any second. The photo seems to reflect ideas on the strength of nature.

CONTENT

The photo was released in conjunction with ‘The Remains of Elmet’ a collection of poems by author Ted Hugh’s. Elmet was the name of the British kingdom that is now part of Yorkshire. Godwin’s photos were taken in the historic region of Elmet in this area of barren dunes. At the time of the collections release Margaret Thatcher rose to power as British prime minister, beginning a series of strikes in response to Thatchers harsh approach to public workers. Those living up North such as Yorkshire were most drastically affected in the ‘Winter of Discontent’ The photo could reflect this feeling of hatred for the government and instead wanted to escape into nature.

PROCESS

As part of a poem collection, this photo was likely made in a dark room and then replicated for the anthology it was part of. To capture so much of the countryside Godwin probably stood on one of the highest dunes to get this photo. I believe that the photo was taken with just the natural light. I suspect that the photo was taken on a camera with a lens of 28mm-35mm as is typical for landscape photos.

Lisa Wood

Lisa Wood is an American photographer that takes abstract photographs of farmland landscapes using multiple exposures and time lapse techniques to create a collage-like affect.

https://theinspirationgrid.com/art-of-farmland-surreal-photos-by-lisa-wood/

Examples of her work:

Photo Shoot Plans

Who	I will be taking the photos and do not need any models.
What	I am going to take photos of the cliffs and sea at Devils Hole, also pictures of the woods on the path down.
Why	I want to take the photos here as there is a mix of landscapes. There is the cliffs and sea but also almost a forest on the path down. I think the more costal pictures of the cliffs and the sea will work well with the style of Lisa Woods images because her images are split into sections and look like collages.
Where	I will take photos of the more woodland area, being the trees and even fields.
When	I want to go during the day where the natural light is bright. I want the weather to be more sunny rather than grey as this will work well with the more green places.
How	I will be taking them on my camera.

Contact Sheets

I took the above photos on my phone as back up photos incase the ones on my camera did not turn out well after transporting them.

These images were taken on my camera which looked perfect on the screen when I was checking them while still being outside, however once I had transported them across to my phone I realised that most of them were either over or under exposed.

When taking these images I focused on the rule of thirds and tried to keep the horizon in the middle/upper third. When developing these further I can combine the images where the sky is brighter or darker with the images where the cliffs and sea look normal to have a clear juxtaposition but still making them look like one image.

For the sequence project I was inspired by the pop art work of artist Andy Warhol.

To save time I used photos already taken from my portrait mock. I debated using the same image repeated for my sequence however I decided that it would look more unique if I was to use a few different but similar photos. By using Lightroom I was able to put my own spin on Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe sequence. To do this I played around with colour features and made extreme changes to components such as highlight and shadows

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My favourite photo in my sequence is the yellow as the colours are much more vibrant and solid compared to the others which are slightly patchy. If i was to do this again I would make the colours more solid and also use different colours for different features to make to end product closer to Warhol’s pop up