Introduction (250-500 words)

Through my narrative personal study, I want to give a ‘voice’ to the historical past of immigrants and why they travel and how they adapt to unfamiliar places as a source of better income. I am going to focus on my grandparent’s story and how they travelled from Madeira to Jersey to seek better income for a better life for themselves and for a better life for my mother and my uncle. 

This topic interests me as there are a lot of immigrants in Jersey, families that have moved here for a better life just like my grandparents. As an island Jersey has opened to places like Madeira. 

There is no specific links between my previous studies and my chosen personal study topic however My grandparents worked at Hamptonne Farm so I will be going back to Hamptonne farm photographing the fields and tracing the path that my grandparents took on their journey for wealth which included a struggle of bringing my mother and uncle over to Jersey due to

I will be incorporating images from my family archive and where I can demonstrate how its modernised from Madeira interlinking with Jersey to what it is like to be an immigrant 30 years in the past to becoming an Entitled Jersey Citizen. 

Paragraph 1 (500 words)

Realism is the opposite of Pictorialism where objects, environments and people are manipulated. Realism is an object, environment, people etc photographed how it can be seen directly through a human’s eye. Realism is focussed on Naturalism with no form of manipulation through scratching onto photo negatives nor pouring chemicals onto images and scratching lines etc.  

I am liking my project to Realism as I want my images photographed as naturalistically as possible to reflect the reality throughout my narrative.  

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For my first Artist I am studying Rita Puig

Rita Puig-Serra Costa Where Mimosa Bloom 

https://paper-journal.com/rita-puig-serra-where-mimosa-bloom/#:~:text=Where%20Mimosa%20Bloom%20is%20a,experience%20of%20grief%20after%20loss.

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My second artist is

Conclusion (500 words)

Bibliography: 

Our inward-looking Island has become a more accepting place place

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/let-me-get-there/immigrants-photographic-legacy

https://paper-journal.com/rita-puig-serra-where-mimosa-bloom/#:~:text=Where%20Mimosa%20Bloom%20is%20a,experience%20of%20grief%20after%20loss.

WHERE MIMOSA BLOOM

Lesson task Thurs: Personal Study
Read the essay and comment on its overall written and interpretative quality as well as its use of critical, contextual and historical references, eg.

Does the essay address its hypothesis?

Their work clearly focussed on the topic of the Pandemic and the effects of it and they tell a clear narrative throughout.

Does it provide new knowledge and understanding?

There is lots of knowledge and understanding of the Pandemic and the artists revolving around it.

Is the essay well structured with a sense of an introduction, paragraphs and a conclusion?

Ye its good their images tell a narrative from the start of COVID-19 being locked in to the back cover being on the exterior of a front door locking the door being able to leave again.

Use and flow of language, prose, punctuation, spelling.

Superb spelling and punctuation if I do say so myself.

Use of specialist vocabulary relating to art and photography.

There’s quite a bit of specialist vocabulary however their essay tends to focus on the Pandemic and the meaning more than Photography vocab.

Analysis of artist’s oeuvre (body of work) and key work(s).

Follows their artists work throughout describing what they do in detail.

Evidence of wider reading with reference to art history/ theory, political discourse and/or socio-economical context.

Their essay focuses on the world wide impact of the Pandemic as a whole for different places in the world rather than isolating their work to Jersey.

Use of direct quotes, summary or commentary from others to make an informed and critical argument.

Use of referencing system (eg. Harvard) and a bibliography.

No Bibliography

Use of illustrations with captions listing name of artist, title of work and year of production.

Descriptively talks about artists which captured the impact of COVID-19 and shows their images.

Level 4- 10 or 11

What is your story?

1. 3 words: Stinky Bay (Le Pulec), rocks, coast
2. A sentence; My zine will be a picture story about the geological sites of special interest at Le Pulec
3. A paragraph: Through my zine I will tell a story of the history of the Rocks and the coast of Le Pulec which has been nicknamed Stinky Bay.

Editing and Choosing process

Chosen Photoshoot Images

Archive images from L’Etacq

I want to incorporate Jerseys archive images into my work as a way of assisting my storytelling style.

Typography

What is typophoto?
Typography is communication composed in type.
Photography is the visual presentation of what can be optically apprehended.
​Typophoto is the visually most exact rendering of communication.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

https://www.photopedagogy.com/typophoto.html#:~:text=What%20is%20typophoto%3F,most%20exact%20rendering%20of%20communication.

Hamish Fulton’s Work

Zine Research and the history of the Zine

The word “zine” is a shortened form of the term fanzine, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Fanzines emerged as early as the 1930s among fans of science fiction. Zines also have roots in the informal, underground publications that focused on social and political activism in the ’60s.

Zines are Staple bound which means that two staples hold all the pages together. Also known as saddle stitched binding or Perfect bound where Pages are glued against a square spine, making a softback book. A 20-page zine will usually be staple bound.

MONOCHROME BY DMITRI TCHERBADJI

I think that Dmitri Tcherbadji’s work is inspiring because…

Experimentation with Typography

Final Zine

Final Evaluation

My intentions upon starting the topic was to tell a story of the history of the Rocks and the coast of Le Pulec which has been nicknamed Stinky Bay and it’s native Jeriais routes, Therefore, I added an extract of a poem written about Jersey in Jeriais which talks about Jersey’s rocks.

Tes rochers, ton rivage, Où le cormorant vit; Le soleil sur ta plage, Reflétant le granit: Tout anime la flamme. Qui chauffe tous mes sens, Et qui ravit mon âme, À toute heure, en tout temps.

I included photos from the Heritage Archives to my Zine to help with my aim to tell the story of how the coast of Le Pulec came to be. For my Zine I wanted to use quite a bit of Typography as it can give an image a juxtaposing meaning or it can describe what’s happening in a photograph Dmitri Tcherbadji’s work was an inspiration to my work. https://www.myfavouritelens.com/monochrome-dmitri-tcherbadji-photo-zine-review-interview/. Tcherbadji’s work was really eye-catching to me and I found that their work tells a story fluently throughout their work.

Through this topic I have learnt how to correctly and confidently use InDesign software and I am happy with the outcome of my Zine.

Virtual Gallery

Alexander Apostol

Alexander Apostol was born in Barquisimeto in 1969. Encompassing photography and video, Apostol seeks to expose fractures in the modernist project, both in the artist’s native Venezuela and across South America. Since early in his career, he has concentrated on the iconography of the urban landscape. Apostol digitally altered the images to conceal windows and doors.

I chose Apostol as an artist because I like how he edits his images to cover the windows which to me portrays the idea of isolation and what our world may look like in future and or it could foreshadow how man- made buildings etc shouldn’t be there.

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Using Apostol’s work I could alter a landscape of the Sand dunes and manipulate them so that the Sand dunes are in the foreground and a large sky rise building and or office building is in the background

Edward Steichen

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Image Analysis

interaction between architecture and people so compare size

Gray scale of concrete fields

Towering skyscrapers

Bold Geometric structures

after sunset

Inspiration

Camilo Jose Vergara

Vergara photographs and documents the poorest and most segregated communities in Urbanized America. He says “I feel that a people’s past, including their accomplishments, aspirations and failures, are reflected less in the faces of those who live in these neighbourhoods than in the material, built environment in which they move and modify over time. Photography for me is a tool for continuously asking questions, for understanding the spirit of a place, and, as I have discovered over time, for loving and appreciating cities”. Throughout his work he revisits places as a way of becoming historically conscious.

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Nicholas de Pencier

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671640/

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Edward Steichen, from pictorialism to modernism – Claude Gauthier (cgauthier.ca)

What is Still-life photography?

Still-life is a form of photography in which it depicts inanimate objects or subject matters.

History of Still-life Photography

Still-life photography was recognised in the 19th century and rapidly became popular in Europe. Artists created compositions which from first glance looked simple however has complex meaning. Paintings depicted burnt candles, human skulls, dying flowers, fruits and vegetables, broken chalices, jewellery, crowns, watches, mirrors, bottles, glasses, vases all in which are symbolic to death, power, beauty and health.

Inventors changed with the times when the daguerreotype was created by Louis Daguerre in 1839. Shortly after in the mid 1800s  Charles Aubry formed a company to manufacture plaster casts and make photographs of plants and flowers. By the 20th century, Baron Adolf de Meyer used soft-focus lenses and painterly darkroom techniques to make photographs that resembled drawings and prints.

Olivia Parker

https://www.oliviaparker.com/still-life-2001-2008

https://www.oliviaparker.com/still-and-not-so-still-life

https://www.oliviaparker.com/copy-of-essay-books-3

There is an underlying theme through arrangement of objects with implies a meaning.

Death is a common theme demonstrated through still-life

By adding layers to a painting or in photography also can communicate a socio-political point in which the painter or photographer is trying to raise. By adding layers the image or painting is mimicked adding more context which can result in being unethical but this method is used as a powerful way of communicating to the audience.

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Calcite is the most common form of natural calcium carbonate. Carbonate minerals are formed of carbon and oxygen combined with various metals. Lining the holes in the rock is chalcedony, a form of quartz.

I played around with the black and white setting as it adjusts colours rather than the whole image.

What is a Geopark?

A Geopark is a designated area of land containing one or more sites of geological importance. This is an area in which we are trying to conserve the geological heritage and promote awareness, which is common through tourism.

A Unesco Global Geopark is are geographical area sites and landscapes of international geological significance which are managed with a holistic concept of protection, education and sustainable development.

These features are representative of a region’s geological history and the events and processes that formed it. It must also include important natural, historic, cultural tangible and intangible heritage sites.

Geoparks in Jersey

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https://societe-jersiaise.org/uploads/documents/inline/pdf/jersey-geopark-2.pdf

David Hockney

David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. In the early 1980s, Hockney started to produce photocollages, which he called “joiners,” starting off with polaroid prints and later of 35mm, processed color prints. Using a large number of Polaroid prints or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. One of his first photomontages was of his mother. the images are taken from different perspectives and with slightly different lighting resulting in an effect similar to Cubism.

David Hockney’s creation of the “joiners” occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses to take pictures. He did not like such photographs because they always came out somewhat distorted. Working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together as a preparatory work, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. He realised this picture created a kind of story, as if the viewer was moving through the room. He began to work more and more with photography after this discovery and even stopped painting for a period of time. Hockney had always been interested in Cubism and the idea of multiple perspectives and viewpoints so this was another way for him to explore this way of looking.

Space is an illusion, as the photograph itself is only a representation of the ‘real’ thing. Secondly, the collage can expand space by assembling many individual images together into a wider view.

Viewpoints The construction of a collage includes many images, each with their of point of view. Therefore, by definition a ‘joiner’ is a collage with multiple viewpoints.

One of David Hockneys pieces of work consists 30 polaroid pictures which are put together similarly to a collage. His methods take into account for a bigger illusion of space in comparison to a single image and time is extended beyond a fraction of a second due to this many viewpoints are accounted for in each image.

Time is captured in a much broader scale.

By manipulating time from a fraction of a second in one image when taking multiple images in portraiture he was able to express emotions throughout time.

Hockneys work leads us to the discussion of photographs which are of course real but that they are also an illusion.

“Photographs don’t have life”