Here I have displayed my best images from both photoshoots. I wanted to include a combination of different photographs just to show different perspectives of Anthropocene, from the full sized abandoned photos, to the small scale close ups of deteriorating landmarks.

Process for final piece choices

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These photographs here were inspired by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre’s series: Gunkanjima (2008-2012)

For my first photograph, I ended up photographing an old, decaying house than was almost completely consumed in an abundance of nature. I enjoyed the overall look of this house as it gave off quite an eerie sense of living, showing that eventually life will take over buildings and structures made by humans if left unkept. I wanted to only crop off a certain portion of the overall photograph as I wasn’t happy with how the full image looked on it’s own. After I cropped the image, I edited the image to my liking, being inspired by Yves and Romain throughout the process.

For my second photograph, I once again decided to choose an abandoned and decaying house as my focus for this image as I wanted to follow a similar theme to that of the first one. I wanted to capture as many of the plants in the image as possible, just to highlight how powerful nature has been towards this building. I ended up editing this photo in the exact same way as image 1, loving how it turned out.

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For my third photograph, I ended up going for a slightly different approach with the style of the image and the way I decided to edit it too. For this image, I decided to take a more abstract approach as I was inspired by Aaron Siskind’s work and wanted to display mine as being somewhat similar to his. I went for a close up shot of a lock which clearly shows some rusting and aging due to its texture and markings. Aaron’s work tends to consist of difficult to complex close up images that make it hard to decipher what he is actually taking a photo of, followed by a black and white filter. I wanted this photograph to follow a similar theme and show how over time, these objects will decay and no longer be of use in the world.

For my fourth photograph, I decided to photograph a pile of mainly electronic devices that had been thrown into a trailer at the recycling unit. I wanted to capture just the sheer amount of waste that tends to occur everyday which continues to pile higher and higher, causing for pollution to become increasingly worse for the environment due to such large items being incinerated. Once again I decided to add on a black and white filter, just to make the image look a lot more dispiriting and to show the negative impact this has on the environment.

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For my fifth photograph, I decided to capture the image of an abandoned looking greenhouse. This I believed was very well linked to anthropocene in the sense that greenhomes are suppose to allow plants and nature to thrive and grow much better so that the environment doesn’t stifle, but instead, the entire place has been completely given up on and abandoned, leaving the plants inside to overcome the structure and grow around everything. A place that is supposed to allow plants to grow more successfully, ended up being taken over by nature itself.

For my final, sixth photograph, I decided to take a photograph containing a variety of broken down cars. This links to my fourth photograph in the sense that it symbolises how easily humans dispose of polluting items and cause for the environment to suffer more damage and increasingly become worse.

Evaluation and Critique

Evaluation:

I am very happy with how my overall photographs turned out. I am incredibly interested in places that are decaying and almost ethereal so I was extremely happy that I was able to execute this so well during my edits of the images.

What Went well:

I believe I was able to execute what I was envisioning and was very happy with the final results of each photograph taken. I wanted to have my work heavily inspired by Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre and Aaron Siskind which I believe I was able to achieve when editing and finalising my photographs.

Critique:

What I would have done differently however, is I would have explored maybe the insides of abandoned areas more such as the greenhouse. I should have possibly researched more into certain locations to see if I was able to enter them as to get better photoshoots. I wanted to show the real aftermath of what nature can do on the inside of unoccupied areas.