This shoot pairs with my second shoot focusing on the area closer to my home, but I take a more abstract and meaningful approach. I displays how the area can seem completely different depending on when you visit, some days it can be busy with children out having fun, where other days it can seem like a ghost town. These images will be displayed in pairs to show comparisons between the two.
Raw Image Contact Sheet
Plan and Process
For this shoot, my plan was to use a tripod to keep the frame steady and consistent throughout different shots. I took an image of empty space with no subjects in the frame, I then photographed one subject in multiple different places within the frame, without moving the camera, My plan is to edit these images in photoshop to make the subject appear multiple times in one frame. This is to symbolise how busy and also empty areas of the local community can be.
Editing
In photoshop, I cut out parts of different images and aligned them so the subject appears multiple times in one frame.
Final Image pairs
Favorite Image
This is my favorite image because it is the most seamlessly edited. This photo also caught my attention because of the colourful backgroung and texture of the wall ehich brings more life to the image.
This shoot focuses on the area closer to my parish, showing the variation of how people live, their beliefs and the good/bad aspects of this area.
Edited image contact sheet
Favorite Image
This is my favourite image because it symbolises the activities that bring communities together, yet also displays the wealth and lifestyle of people in this area. The broken and worn basketball hoop has natural earthy colours from the moss, which goes with the earthy brown colors of the wall it is leaning against. To further enhance this earthy feel I colour corrected the image while editing it to have a yellow/brown hue. I think that this gives the image almost a relatable feel because nothing is too bright and crisp, making the hoop feel used, showing that it has helped bring the community together.
For this first shoot i focissed on street/candid photography, local businesses along with the consistent architecture of the community buildings in my parish.
When editing these images, especially for the architecture photographs, I created a big contrasty between the highlights and the shadows to create a more dramatic image.
Edited images Contact Sheet
Favourite image
This is my favorite image because it shows a successful, busy local business within the community. The warm colours from the natural lighting make the image more inviting to look at. I also like the candidness of the image with the man and his bike unaware of the camera, along with the people in the shop.
For these next three photo shoots, i have imagines myself as a photographer for my street, neighbourhood, town or city. And that I have been commissioned to create a sequence of photographs celebrating the spirit of this place and its people. I will be limited to 10 pictures in total. Make a larger body of images, then edit these down to just 10. Arrange in a sequence or collage that makes sense as a final set of images.
Shoot plans
My plans for these three shoots are to approach three different areas and aspects of the community around me. The first shoot will focus on street/candid photography along with the consistent architecture of the community buildings in my parish.
My next shoot will focus in on the area closer to my parish, showing the variation of how people live, their beliefs and the good/bad aspects of this area.
My final shoot will pair with my second shoot focusing on the area closer to my home, but I will take a more abstract and meaningful approach. I will display how the area can seem completely different depending on when you visit, some days it can be busy with children out having fun and other members of the community everywhere, where other days it can seem like a ghost town. These images will be displayed in pairs to show comparrisons.
For this assignment, I decided to collect old images of my house. I thought I would take a different approach to this assignment instead of using family images, as my house projects the same idea as comparing photographs of my relatives. This is because I lived in this house ever since I was I born. Another important reason as to why my house is important to my family and I, is because my dad and grandad built and designed it themselves. For this reason there is many pictures of the process of building my house in my family photo albums, and I think creating a comparison of the changes of my house over the years is a more unique way of representing my identity and family.
Family Archives Photoshoot
I decided to take photographs of my house compared to the building process of my house, as well as individual photographs of sections of my house and re-photographed the images from my family album. I did this to experiment in photoshop with layering and making collages to compare the changes of my house over the years.
The images I highlighted in red are the photographs I believe are my least successful photographs as I don’t think the images line up that well and I didn’t like the composition of the photographs. The images I highlighted in green are what I believe to be my most successful photographs because the photos line up better or I like the idea of layering them in that way.
I’m going to use photoshop to experiment with layering and cropping to create a collage-like affect.
Photoshop Development
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To edit these images, I cropped the original image of the physical photographs from my family albums, I then layered them over the new photographs and lowered the opacity in order to achieve a “ghost-like” effect. I also erased areas of the old images to keep the contrast between the old and new. I feel like this photoshoot was successful because it’s a more unique approach to the project, yet it still projects a strong contrast between old and modern times.
If I was to do this photoshoot again, I would take a wider range of photographs at different angles. This way, I could have lined up the older images better and had more images to work with.
The title ‘In progress’ suggests that the work exhibited is aiming to shed light on issues that are still a problem in society today and are only being solved gradually. I believe the title of this exhibition has derived from the phrase ‘a work in progress’, as it implies that although people are making an effort to reduce these issues, they are also being put on the side-lines as other problems are being prioritised over them. For me the word ‘progress’ connotes ideas of steady change and revolution in society. In the last 5 years I think that photography has become more honest in the way we capture moments, I believe we have seen a more candid side to the world rather than a staged outer appearance, especially due to the increasing amounts of photo-journalism we have access to due to technology such as phone cameras. In addition, I also think that this honesty has come from a place of activism and a need for improvement to ourselves and the world we live in, whether it be motivated by issues such as racial or environmental injustice. My expectations for this exhibition were to see visual representations of modern issues, that are given the attention they deserve by the photographers presented. My expectations for any photography exhibition are to see images that cause me to question myself or society around me, whether it be the way I live and my impact on others, or the impact others have on the world. The themes and format of photography I would normally expect to encounter are predominantly staged portraits as most people find that these are the best story tellers and most efficient way of connecting with an audience. This exhibition supports my expectations through the work of photographer Widline Cadet, due to her staged portraits depicting women supporting each other, but is also contradicted by photographers such as Laia Abril, who has taken still life photographs.
STORY: What is your migrant community story? Describe in:
3 words – A migrant community
A sentence – The migrant communities of Jersey.
A paragraph – This work shows the variety and vastness of the communities we have in Jersey including sub communities and groups that link with different hobbies or beliefs.
NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?
I will tell the story through my images I have taken on walks through St Helier which have been arranged to show/ tell different stories and show opposition.
AUDIENCE: Who is it for?
My Zine will be aimed for anyone who is part of a community in Jersey to show that communities effect identity which include both personal identity, and social identity.
Images here
THEME OR STORY
I have used an image of a mural for my front cover with a French title La Vielle Ville which translates to the old town. The main theme of the zine will be revolving around how wide communities are and how many people are part of them.
The start of the zine will be revolving around natural vs artificial light and will be images from the museum trip. There will be a few images from the trip.
Next I will start to show the communities of Jersey and show how creative and unique the outcome from different communities are showing some art in town.
Next I will show the different members of communities through images and imagination. I will show comparisons from young and creative, to old and old fashioned.
I then want to show how old communities are and how communities are creative again. I will compare signs from different places through town showing building names and graffiti artwork. This shows younger communities and how we are creating our own signs and world around us.
Using Indesign, I have created a zine of the images I took over the two photography walks in town linked to identity and community. I have also used titles and a variety of images to link to identity and community.
I think the group of images above work well together because they reference different parts of society. The old car references the elderly and that the elderly are still part of the community. The image of the man with the guitar references music as a part of linking people together. The three pairs of shoes represent the idea of family and how a family is like a community. And the man holding the bin bags references the idea of working and providing for his family and community.
The group of images above work well together because they are candid photographs that show people in there natural environment. I like how people look when photographed without knowing so they don’t have to act in a certain way for the photo.
I grouped the images above together because the two images on the left are both old lanterns and have a good luminance and create a nice glow. I grouped the two images on the right together because they both have similar colourways and together, the two sets of images represent the idea of blue and cold looking images versus orange warm looking images.
I grouped the images above together because they all have good contrasts in bright light and dark shadows and colours.
The images above are all of writing on walls and i like the grouping of the old writing (top left) the new writing (top right), the illegal writing (bottom left) and the new but weathered writing (bottom right).
I grouped the images above together because they both use similar colour schemes and also both are artwork on walls.
Actual Design
I named the zine La Vielle Ville which translates to the old town from French linking to Jersey’s French and Jerriais (Jersey French) heritage. I also used an image of an old mural near the Jersey museum in Le Chemin Du Bel.
I chose to group the two images above because they both have shimmers from the light. They also oppose each other as the image on the left is very colourless and contains natural light versus the other image is artificial light and has a warm colour.
I chose to use the image above as a two page spread as the spine of the book where it folds is in the middle and looks like two different photos.
I grouped the images above as they both use the same colourway and are both murals on walls.
I grouped the two images on the left as they both relate to community. I grouped the images on the right as the one at the top is an old beer brewery and the image on the bottom right is an image of the Admiral which is a pub and links to beer.
In class we were asked to ask to create a zine with our Images from the community/identity project. To create our own zine in InDesign we followed the following instructions:
It was a work of research, analysis and exploration. We explored different design, format, sizes and orientation. We were free to placed the images we wanted and how we wanted to placed them. We were also free to decide our title. This is mine: I decided to title it “Au vieux temps” that means to the old days. I wanted a title that represents the history of jersey communities. I wanted it to be in French because France is part of my identity. Then “in the old days” is an expression used in France
But what is a zine?
A zine is a self-published, non-commercial print-work that is typically produced in small, limited batches. Zines are created in many DIY ways, but traditionally editions are easily reproduced—often by crafting and then photocopying, folding, and stapling the pages into simple pamphlets. You also may also sewn, taped, glued them. There are no rules! People in general create zines to be more motivated, self-expression and artistic passion. Zines are usually inexpensive and sometimes distributed for free. Zines can touch on a variety of topics from music and art, to politics, sexuality, humor or even personal memoir. Their can be written, drawn, printed, collaged… Zine’s structure may be narrative, journalistic, comic-like, or completely abstract.
PRESENTATION & EVALUATION: PHOTO-ZINE
Here’s how I arranged my images. We had to have a total of 16 images with the theme of Community and Identity. I wanted the images (that are in the same page) to have something in common e.g colors, geometric shapes, patterns, people… I find that this activity has let us be creative which I appreciated
I have finished my Zine, which I designed in indesign.
This is the front cover, which I made in Photoshop, by using text on a path the follow the same curve as the cars roof, so that the text was parallel to the car, as it look asteycilly pleasing. I used the same blue as the car against the black background to create contrast so the text is easy to read. And I used some blending options to draw attention to the text by making small adjustments to the bevel, stroke, and the inner shadow.
Im starting the zine off with these two images of old cars. I made my favourite image larger by making it full bleed. This works as the cover image is the same as the image on the right, however it is zoomed in more. I have set the theme with the cars which allows me to shift the focus to the newer cars and mechanics and their work place.
I used an image of a slightly newer car to create a small juxtaposition to the older cars before. Then I used a set of three images of mechanics and people working in garages, so that I can include and introduce a sense of human emotion and charisma into the zine. By having these images on this double page spread allows me to have a double page spread next on both the topics of new cars and mechanics.
I used a double page spread to end the juxtaposition of time with in the images of cars. It is also a double page spread as it includes both the topics of cars and mechanics. I made sure that the number plate wasn’t in the middle of the double page as that’s where the gutter would be and it would have been cut off.
I used these images of street art to shift the focus from cars to more of a general view of the streets and lanes, to personal items. I used the colour orange to link the images on the previous page, as orange is the main colour of the sports car and also the graffiti in the right image.
I used all the colourful colours from the previous page to link to the vibrant colours of the different shoes on the window sill, which is an example of multiple items that being to a person or people. Then the full bleed image of a single object in a staged setup, that shows that there is a lot going on in one photo.
The group of 4 images represent the busy, crowded, chaotic town centre. I used a nicely framed image of a restaurant sign to link the candid image of the man outside a coffee shop. Then since I used a person in the last image, I chose that as the link to the street performer and the man carrying the bags over his shoulder. Then to create a contrast, on the right page I included more negative space. I did this by using a smaller image of a ladies face framed through the fences, with a larger image of an elderly mans face, which gives a more personal feel.
I wanted to include some black and white images so I thought that now is the right place as the pervious page has concluded the images where the subject includes people, however I used a image of people to continue the flow. I made the image on the left have white borders to emphasis the mans white shirts, which also gives the man in the black t-shirt contrast as they are at different levels, and it brings out his face as he is against a dark background. It also allows me to make the image with the pigeons full bleed as it is a visually strong image and shows motion.
I wanted the back cover to end with a simple abstract image. I chose this image as it continues the black and white trend and is complex and interesting as the light from the skylight shows the details on the banister. It could show the journey of Jersey and the history of Jersey since it was taken in the Jersey Museum.
Overall, I am happy with the outcome which I have come up with, as there is a clear path of progression throughout the zine, which is not normally my usual work style, as I prefer to come up with 1 unique image or images that aren’t related. I have also created some very visually strong image and I am proud that I was able to include them and link them to other images that aren’t necessarily as strong.
