Theme: Overpopulation and Overconsumption
Overpopulation: is the concept of a human population becoming too large to be sustained by its environment or resources in the long term. The idea is usually discussed in the context of world population, though it may also concern regions. These two factors are related as high birth rates and population growth result in higher levels of consumption of resources (all other things being equal), which can have a negative effect on social, and especially sustainable development.
Overconsumption: describes a situation where the use of a renewable natural resource exceeds its capacity to regenerate. A prolonged pattern of overconsumption leads to the eventual loss of resource bases. The term overconsumption is quite controversial in use and does not necessarily have a single unifying definition. Overconsumption worsens climate breakdown and increases air pollution. It exhausts the planet’s life support systems like the ones that provide us with fresh water, and leaves us short of materials critical to our health and quality of life.
Visual Ideas
Link to my project
I will be exploring how the increasing human population affects the earth, more going into the concept of how our raw materials are decreasing. With the climate changing due to global warming caused by the ‘human virus’ I will attempt to illustrate the ways in which man has changed the earth with each new life. This is a very current issue and I think that he should be addressed more in the photography world.
Additionally. I will be taking images in factories to demonstrate how much raw materials the human population uses, but also i will be demonstrating how some materials get recycled when I go down to the recycling centre, this is to show the positive side of Anthropocene.
Collage work
Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface.
