For this shoot, I walked around most parts of the French/Portuguese quarters. I took many photographs of the community, where they live and their local businesses.
Best edited images contact sheet
Favourite Image
This is my favourite image because it shows the similarities within a community and how many people within it have similar interests and can get along. Such as these two people getting along and posing for the camera mid-conversation.
I like this photo because of the high contrast from the shadows adding depth to the image. This is shows in the garage where the light on the motorbike fades to black as it gets further away and deeper into the room. I also like the texture and patterns on the walls behind both of the subjects, it adds variation to the image making it less flat.
STORY: What is your migrant community story? Describe in:
3 words – A migrant community.
A sentence – How migration to Jersey in the past affected current times.
A paragraph – My migrant community story is about how immigration to Jersey from hundreds of years ago has affected current Jersey life and architecture in ethic areas. It focuses on the difference of buildings and genuine life within these areas, depending on which ethnic group resides there.
NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?
Using my own images from walking round St Helier and comparing my images to images from the Jersey Archives of the same areas from the past and how these areas have changed.
AUDIENCE: Who is it for?
My story will be aimed at the older generation of immigrants to Jersey as I feel like it will resonate well with that age group and create a sense of nostalgia, as well as proving how Jersey has changed throughout the years.
Sequencing
In terms of sequencing, I want to keep a pattern of juxtaposition. To do this, I will use contrasting images of both vibrant colour as well as monochromatic images. I was also alternate between sizing and orientation, and also using double page spreads. This will create my theme of Jersey life, which will feature street photography portraits as to represent the citizens of Jersey in their day-to-day life.
Here is an example of how I would sequence my images to create juxtaposition.
In Lightroom all while holding shift, I used the letter X to discard an image and the letter P to flag it- this created my first selection (as you can see above- my flagged images).
After the previous steps, I went through the flagged photographs, rating them from 1-5 stars one by one. Some were very similar so I compared them and got rid of most.
As the final step, I chose my favourite images of all and using Lightroom I made adjustments- surprisingly after editing them, some of the images rated two or three turned out better than some of the ones rated four or five.
We went to the Jersey Archive, and I’m going to use Lightroom to edit all my images and select the ones I want as well as rate them to be able to find my best images for my sequences collection.
here is a map showing where we walked around to take these images, mostly the French and Portuguese quarters as well as some rich resident areas
here is the process;
these were all my images i imported..
In order to pick the images that turned out the best and not have any repeating images, I used the tool of pressing either P or X, this would help me select the images I actually wanted to work with, here are the images that I all pressed P on;
as you can see , this helped me narrow down my choices and work with a less amount of photos however with the ones I really liked and wanted to continue editing.
I rated all my images either 2 or 3 stars, 2 being I may need to re think them and 3 being I want to continue editing them now, I then switched the filter onto images rated 3 stars or higher and these were the final images I ended up with, now ready to edit them.
The images that I rated 3 stars stayed in my library and I then decided to develop them and edit them. I did two versions of editing, I kept them in colour and developed them and after that I changed them all to black&white to see what version I like more-
Here are my final developed images;
in colour;
in black and white;
these are my final images that I have developed and edited. I edited my set of images in colour using different contrast and exposure options to make sure they were edited in the way I was happy with how they look and I tried to keep the same style throughout all my images to not have any images that dont fit in or stand out too much.
Once I was happy with editing my coloured version set of images I also wanted to turn them all black and white and develop them further on. I did this to see whether I prefer the coloured or black and white set of images.
I do like how vibrant my coloured set of images are and turned out however I think when it comes to sequencing my images and putting them into a small book I will use the black and white set of images as it does match the photographers I’ve been looking at more as nearly all the old images of Jersey are in black and white to and I think I matched the tones between all the images well.
In this photoshoot, we walked around certain areas of town in order to capture elements of community and identity. I tried to focus my work on identity of communities reflected in the architecture of the area, such as English-style buildings and more colourful, unique building designs. I also managed to capture candid portraits that reflect a particular part of that person’s identity, such as their job or hobbies.
I think my photos highlighted in green are my most successful images as the distinctively capture the identity of a singular person or a group of people. The way the images capture both the person’s clothing as well as the surroundings around them, such as a building site or an area where a a particular community inhabit provides an easier outlook onto that person’s life through their career or hobbies.
I believe the images with a red cross through them are my least successful as the theme of identity and community can only be applied very vaguely, as majority of these images are close-ups of random buildings or have distractions in the image, such as other people on the trip taking images at the same time.
To edit these images, I will add a black and white filter and make the contrast slightly more exaggerated. This is to give them a similar appearance to the images in the archives, and provide a vintage atmosphere to the images.
We went on a trip down to the Jersey Museum to start our year 13 project on Identity and Community. We visited the ‘People make jersey – our stories of immigration’ exhibition to learn more about our communities immigration stories. Lucy Layton put together the exhibition in order to show that every Islander had their own ‘Jersey story’ to tell and the variety of people who make up Jersey’s community. The exhibition starts with Jersey’s first permanent settlers, who arrived around 7,000 years ago and where originally driven by a changing climate to seek a new place where they could plant their crops and raise their families. It then follows the waves of immigrants who have arrived in Jersey over the centuries.
In the exhibition their was a glass table which had displayed many different types of passport cards and there was the Aliens registration cards, which showed lots of French people living in Jersey in 1920.
They also had a wall with many Jersey surnames and describing the history and origins of these names.
In the exhibition they created a wall which shows the current generations holding their older generations registration cards and next to them was a little bit about their family history.
Around the museum they had placed objects belonging to immigrants and people who were sharing their stories. They had many different objects like an old potato grater used to make polish dishes, a Portuguese passport , a old Spanish doll and a old kettle.
To make the ‘Zine’, we used InDesign to create a 16 page booklet to display our images based on the theme of identity and community. My images will be set out in landscape, with different sized images to create interest and contrast in both colour and size. The inside pages won’t have any text as I want the zine to focus purely on my images. I am still deciding on a title for my Zine.
Once the basic zine is created, and the design and layout has been decided. Photos are then added. To do this, I used the rectangle frame tool and worked out the size of my image.
Once the frame for the photo has been correctly sized, I clicked import photo to add my image into the frame. For my zine I am alternating between the sizes and colours of the images, which is why I have paired black and white images with colour images. Also, each page contains different sized images, for example some pages have an image to the edge of the bleed, whilst others shave a page with another photo.
Once the image has been imported, the image must be resized to fit the frame. To do this, I pressed fitting, and fit content to frame. The fitting of the image depends on the size of the frame, therefore a bigger frame will display a larger image. Repeat this process until all 16 pages in the zine are filled.
for my first chosen photographer I have decided to look into Will Lakeman‘s work. He looks into social housing buildings and photographs many different buildings and flats which show the whole structure and community of Jersey.
some of his work-
I wanted to look at his work and take inspiration from him as I want to photograph town and look at the community within st. helier.
The second contemporary photographer I want to look at is Robert Adams he is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics. He looks at the community by focusing on taking photos of simple buildings and areas of a city that identify a place.
some of his work-
analysis of their images-
Will Lakeman image-
This image I have chosen to analyse uses lots of colour as well as having extremely dark almost completely black areas in order to create a very sharp and powerful contrast between the beaming coloured lights. This photo was taken at night or perhaps just right after the sun has set as there are still some light blue undertones in the sky however that could just be the powerful reflection of the coloured lights. The lights in each flat are very bright which capture the viewers attention directly at the building as the rest of the image is just a dark background consisting of cars and street lamps. The building being centered right in the middle of the image has a powerful effect as it makes it the main focus and grabs your attention right away being able to see all the different colours of the light that are shining through the flats. The trees on the ground level have also been positioned well in the image as the two trees at the front are well lined up with the two columns of windows going up the apartment building. I think this image really makes you think about how there are so many little lives in each window in the building and almost every colour reflecting tells a different story as everyone in the building thats living there has such a different background. I think this photographer captures the idea of Identity and Community’ very well as identifies Jersey as lots of buildings with so many stories inside and it can give you an idea of what town would look like if you were going to walk through it at night. I think Will waiting for the perfect time , night time, to capture this image as it let him capture all the different colours and night time is when the day is coming to an end which means that is when everyone is home together which creates this safe feeling of the community being shown.
Robert Adams image-
In contrast to Will, Robert Adams image I chose to analyse is very different and the complete opposite. I like how simple yet effective Roberts images are at capturing the community to show what the living environment of that city is. His image contains very strong contrasts between black and white, as well as using a variety of different tonal shades. This allows you to see all the houses more clearly as they stand out extremely from the dark shades that surround them. The composition of this image is done very well as the houses are photographed on the bottom half of the image and the sky is the upper half of the image. This separates the image well and creates an even divide between the two. The sky is a lot lighter than the houses which creates a very powerful contrast. I dont think there’s any meaning behind Robert Adams images as his focus was to just photograph the simplicity of buildings and different communities in certain cities or towns he visited.
To start my editing process i imported images into a new collection i made. I used ctrl and P and X to select my favourite images. By clicking P lightroom would flag my image making it one of my chosen images and clicking X made sure I dont use the images when editing further/into the second stage.
After selecting my favourite images, I use the star ratings to rate my images from 1-5 stars. Images that I rated 3+ stars i will keep and continue to edit them in the next stage.
Once i filtered out my images and kept the ones with 3+ star ratings I used the compare tool to decide which image I like more when I had 2 similar images
I then went onto develop mode and edited all my final chosen images.
some of my final and edited images;
I took photos in St.Helier around town of the where the rich quarters used to be back in the days as well as mixing it with some roads that are known to be the french and Portuguese roads , most of buildings used to be huge houses with many floors and rooms however now they all have turned into flats and usually get sold for quite a cheap price.
To start our Year 13 project, we have started looking at the culture and immigration of Jersey. By looking at these aspects in more detail it creates a better understanding of what life used to be like at Jersey and the culture/history behind certain areas and buildings we have here. Taking a trip down to the Jersey Museum allowed us to visually see and learn about the migration with-in Jersey and what caused it and how it was during those times. The exhibition allowed everyone to learn about different stories and how Jersey was influenced and impacted by this.
here are some images of what was at the exhibition and for context;
all of these displays allowed us to see the history of immigration visually and more clearly.
here’s an example of one story for reference-
Jean Janvrin was one of the merchant traders who operated the triangular cod trade between the Gaspé, the West Indies and the Mediterranean. The Janvrin family had been involved with the transatlantic trade for several generations.
In common with many traders Jean maintained a base at St Aubin on the Rue du Crocquet. His house, L’Anciennette was located on the right hand side of the road in part of the building that is now St Aubyn’s Hotel Apartments. The house was bought in 1803 by Jean from Thomas Pipon’s creditors. Pipon had gone bankrupt and the house was sold into the Janvrin family in order to help him pay his debts.
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