Industrial landmarks and pollution
What I did for my first photoshoot was I visited the recycling centre in town, where I got the opportunity to photograph all the waste that had been thrown away by many people. I thought this was a perfect way to capture the sense of Anthropocene as it really shows that man-made items and objects, get easily disposed of and cause for pollution to resonate. Electrical items, metal and other materials, are very difficult to dispose of, so they must be incinerated which causes for pollution to occur in the air, damaging the environment as we know it. I wanted to focus on capturing the incinerated pile of debris and also the broken items that had been thrown into the massive heaps of rubbish.
I then continued to take photos around the same area but moving more towards the composting unit next. Around that area, I began to spot zones that contained abandoned and broken down cars that clearly looked unfixable. I wanted to capture how easily they’ve been disposed of, showing that humans tend to use up extremely polluting items in such a short period of time.
Soon after leaving these sites, I continued to stay among the same area but decided to head down the side of where more industrial tanks and machinery was. Trying to mainly keep the structures central and remain as the focal point of the entire photograph.
Artists that I would particularly like to use as my focus for this photoshoot is Edward Burtynsky who dives into the world of industrial photography. His series of photographs that he took whilst in China, display a perfect sense of industrial pipes and manufacturing units that damage the environment around us. I would also like to take on Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher as my other inspiration who I created an artist study on in my previous topic ‘Urban Landscape’.
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flagged images:
———— Colour coded and star rated images ————
Here I have all the images that I have colour coded and added a star rating to. These are the narrowed down selection that I have flagged and rejected from my entire photoshoot.
My green labelled images display a variety of different areas among the location I decided to carry my shoot out in. I particularly liked how these images turned out as I believed that they highlight the sense of Anthropocene more, showing the heavy impact humans have on the environment.
My yellow labelled images display once again, a variety of different focal points, but some of them haven’t envisioned exactly what I wanted to achieve. A few of the images, which I labelled as yellow, I will use, but I will have to do a bit of manipulating to get them to a degree which I find acceptable.
My red labelled images didn’t turn out quite like I wanted so I have highlighted these as being my unsuccessful shoots. They were either quite blurry, didn’t show the message of Anthropocene in Jersey, or just weren’t particularly exciting photos.
Best images:
