After looking through my ideas I came up with a few ideas that I wanted to explore further via photoshoots and use for my final Anthropocene project:

Plan/Ideas:

One of my ideas was to take images around St Helier of a variety of things such as housing, littering etc so I could later mount everything on a map of the Parish, making some sort of constructed landscape, in order to present how bad humanity is hurting the environment. I would take some inspiration from Dafna Talmor and her work where she takes apart photos an puts them together in an abstract way in order to make the original image[s] almost unrecognisable due to the way she’s put them back together. However, for my project, I’d do it on a much larger scale.

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Another idea I had was to take a bunch of photos of litter and compile them together in order to create a human-esque figure that’s somewhat distorted to represent how humanity’s habits have had a negative on the planet. I plan on doing this by either making the faces in person then photographing them and improving them via editing or by photographing each piece of rubbish individually on a plain background and forming the faces in photoshop. I would take inspiration from the artist Nick Gentry and his work on compiling objects/photographs into faces, however, I would put my own twist on it, making mine look less human and much grimier.

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A third idea involves taking photos of rubbish and placing the final images next to one another, showcasing the griminess and sheer amount of junk that humans produce. I plan on editing my raw photos in order to exaggerate the objects in each image and hopefully make them look even murkier than they originally were. I plan on taking inspiration from Keith Arnatt’s work as he’s taken a variety of photos of things he’s found from decaying food itself and smaller objects that he’s retrieved and photographed separately in a studio.

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I also liked the idea of juxtaposing through the use of landscapes and wanted to try showing the contrast between nature and manmade buildings and how rural landscapes are slowly being over taken by humans and their impact. I was inspired by some of Felicity Hammond’s work, in particular 2 photos [shown below]. I like how she doesn’t attempt to make the environments look natural and change them, either through editing or via installing a piece, in order to create interesting and engaging images. I plan on taking some photos with both buildings and aspects of nature and will hopefully be able to create some photos similar to hers.