Anthropocene
Urbanisation in Jersey
I think these photos represent Anthropocene in Jersey. The building sites and cranes show urbanisation and the quarry shows the impact of man on the Jersey coastline.
The fall of agriculture in Jersey
I chose to use these photos because they show what most of the general public don’t see. People don’t see the other side of urbanisation, which is a lot of businesses closing and greenhouse land going unused. Agriculture is slowly becoming a smaller industry every year.
I thought I would photograph this tv because it fits in with the background of overgrown and abandoned greenhouses. The tv represents agriculture in the way that it was such a big thing in the past but now it has been abandoned and replaced by new technology.
I edited tv static on to the tv because it also represents the past. Tv static doesn’t really show up on new tv’s. This also creates a good looking effect. The tv also represents agriculture at the moment in the way that it is turned on but doesn’t have any signal/Agriculture is still alive in Jersey but not getting the help it needs to become a big industry again.
The picture edited onto the screen in this photo is an animation of what Holme Grown is planning to look like in the future. They want to build a modern care home where I took the photos of the greenhouses, and also a medical cannabis farm. This shows the evolution of agriculture, as Holme Grown used to just be tomato farms. However, they are abandoning the idea of growing food for people and instead growing cannabis to help people who are prescribed it.