I am going to be going up to Sorel Point to take pictures of Rosnez quarry- illustrating humans affect on the coastal landscape. I will have straight on images of the new hillside as well as using the rule of thirds to frame the equipment, sea and landscape. I will be taking inspiration from George Marazakis for this piece.
George Marazakis– I will be focusing on Georges collection of images titled “A cure for Anthropocene” in which George addresses the critical issue of climate degradation, which he hopes his series can shed light on the possibilities of finding a ‘cure’. He describes humans effects on earth as an “autoimmune disease attacking its own body”.
Image Analysis
For my inspiration I mainly looked at this photo form George taken half way down a large quarry. Its a simple straight on shot most likely aimed to show/exaggerate the vast size and scale of the quarry and the effect it has had on the landscape. It was taken on a cloudy/ overcast day which makes it more impactful by making it look darker and vilified. The bright colour of the water collected at the bottom gives a good contrast to the bleak colours found in the rest of the image and is useful to give an idea of the scale of the quarry. and the overall effect on the earth.
Contact Sheet
Editing Experimentation
Final Idea
After being inspired to shoot a quarry upon looking over my final images I didn’t feel like they fully portrayed the idea of Anthropocene as it was obviously a much smaller quarry; so after levelling these 3 images I decided to add in windows behind shapes in each image. I used these windows to place a photo of some industrial waste to try and showcase how large industrial operations such as mineral mining in quarry’s affect the world by what they leave behind.
I used the rectangular and elliptical marquee tools for the square and circle cut-outs, and the polygonal lasso tool for the triangle.
Evaluation
Overall I think that this piece came out better than expected as I was originally just planning to present the raw photos, but once I saw that they weren’t really portraying the idea of “Anthropocene” and humans impact on the earth and its effect on the natural landscape so I added the “windows” into some of the waste that gets left behind on these large industrial operations.
