What you want to explore?
I want to explore the ideas of living life as a teenager in jersey through the lens of islandness.
Why it matters to you?
It is important to me because I am a teenager living in Jersey and feel as if not everyone truly understands the life of a teenager.
How you wish to develop your project?
Environmental Portraits
The environmental portraits project was our first photography project we did at Hautlieu. I explored artist such as Jimmy Nelson who would travel to tribal areas and photograph members of the tribe with an interesting landscape in the background.
Identity
For my identity project I didn’t take that many images and have a very limited amount of close up headshots and studio shoots. Personally, this wasn’t one of my favourite projects because I found as if it was not interesting enough and the images didn’t show much detail.
Anthropocene
For my Anthropocene project, I took a much larger range of images from urban and rural sites that involved some sort of man made structures. I really enjoyed this project because of the many options for photo shoots around Jersey.
My Rock
This project was our most recent one. For these images I went to St Ouens bay, Grosnez and La Hocq. I took a lot of images of close-up rocks, rock formations, rock landscapes, and beach landscape. I took around 500 images overall for this project and have many edited images on Lightroom and photoshop.
The Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown dependency, which means that it is not part of the UK but is rather a self-governing possession of the British Crown. However, the UK Government is constitutionally responsible for its defence and international representation.
There are three island territories within the British Isles that are known as Crown Dependencies; these are the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey which make up Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. The Crown Dependencies are not part of the United Kingdom, but are self-governing possessions of the British Crown.
In 1204 King John lost the Battle of Rouen against the French King Philippe-Auguste. The defeat signalled the loss of continental Normandy, united with the English Crown since the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. The Channel Islands, part of the Duchy of Normandy for more than a hundred years at that point, might have been expected to align themselves with the French King in 1204 but they were persuaded by a combination of carrot and stick to side with King John instead.
Among the privileges which the King granted Islanders was the right to be governed by their own laws and he instructed them to select their 12 best men as Jurats who, sitting with the Bailiff, became the Island’s Royal Court. A warden, later to become governor, was appointed by the King to organise the defence of the Island.
The constitutional position which Jersey enjoys today is founded on these links with the English Crown confirmed in Royal Charters by subsequent monarchs. Over a period of time, the Royal Court began to consult with the people through the Constables (or Connétables) of the parishes and with the church through the rectors. This consultation with the 3 estates of court, people and church was eventually formalised into what we now know as the States of Jersey. Significant constitutional changes in 1856 and 1948 saw the introduction of Deputies and Senators into the States and the removal of the Jurats and the rectors. However, the 12 Jurats remain the lay members of the Royal Court and are today chosen by an electoral college comprising members of the court and the States.
The Crown Dependencies have never been colonies of the UK. Nor are they Overseas Territories, like Gibraltar, which have a different relationship with the UK. The constitutional relationship of the Islands with the UK is maintained through the Crown and is not enshrined in a formal constitutional document.
The difference between crown dependencies and overseas territories is that, British Crown Dependency means that you are self-governing but the British Crown maintains its possession of you. On the other hand, British Overseas Territory means that you are a British colony that continues to have a constitutional link with the United Kingdom.
Mindmap:
Islandness is the property of being or belonging to an island, especially insofar as it affects society and culture. An example is the island of Jersey which has a range of beautiful landscapes and heritage relating to the theme of islandness.
Moodboard:
‘Waste’ by Nicholas Gallery
Read the essay and comment on its overall written and interpretative quality as well as its use of critical, contextual and historical references.
Does the essay address its hypothesis?
The essays hypothesis was to show how 2 artists tackled the idea of ‘waste’ and ‘Anthropocene’ through close-up images of plastics and other objects relating to waste. I think this essay addresses its hypothesis in a great way.
Does it provide new knowledge and understanding?
The essay provides very good knowledge and understanding of the artists chosen and the topic of ‘waste’.
Is the essay well structured with a sense of an introduction, paragraphs and a conclusion?
The introduction of the essay begins with a quote from Salvador Dalisala who was a Spanish artist, “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it”. which I believe doesn’t have much reference to the essay. The essay is structured in a successful way by using paragraphs to represent the problems of waste. Also, I think the conclusion finishes of the essay in a perfect way by discussing how Mandy Barker and Keith Arnatt used these images of waste and turned them into images of ‘beauty’.
Use and flow of language, prose, punctuation, spelling.
The language used in the essay is very strong and informing, with good use of punctuation and spelling. The essay has a very good flow to it and is easy to understand and read.
Use of specialist vocabulary relating to art and photography.
There is a lot of artistic vocabulary used throughout, which explains the topic in an interesting way
Analysis of artist’s oeuvre (body of work) and key work(s).
Evidence of wider reading with reference to art history/ theory, political discourse and/or socio-economical context.
This essay involves a lot of detailed description of the history of this topic and also displays a lot of knowledge theory and artist references.
Use of direct quotes, summary or commentary from others to make an informed and critical argument.
He has included a various amount of quotes throughout such as a quote from Mandy Barker (the artist he has responded to) replying to her topic name ‘Beyond Drifting’, “because we are not beyond putting an end to the problem – but we are beyond salvaging what is already out there.” I believe Nick has used the use of quotes in an effective way with not including too many, but including a few important quotes.
Use of referencing system (eg. Harvard) and a bibliography.
Use of illustrations with captions listing name of artist, title of work and year of production.
I think the overall mark for this essay is 14 marks which is a level 5. This is because of how detailed and informing the essay, with a very interesting overall topic, and a good range of amazing images.
https://www.artsteps.com/view/6364da4f84fb1fe866c22cc1/?currentUser
Evaluation:
Overall, I am impressed with how my virtual gallery turned out. The gallery displays all my best images from the Le Hocq photoshoot. Throughout the gallery, all the images are used in my Le Hocq photo-zine booklet. I used frames around each of my images involved in the gallery to try and create some sort of contrast between the image and frame. I feel as if the black and white frame outlining most of my images gives the best effect towards the black and white images due to them being the same colours. I tried to place my images together if they had similar features such as the three photos of Le Hocq tower because it keeps the gallery some what organised. Also, the wall and floor textures display my monochrome images in an effective way by keeping a similar colour scheme throughout the virtual gallery.
To begin creating this photo-zine I needed to take a range of images from one location. I used images from my La Hocq photo shoot to try and keep a similar theme throughout the whole zine. After editing all my images I then needed to decide which images to use in my photo-zine. I wanted to try and make all the images in the zine to be displayed in black and white other than the front and back cover.
Image Selection:
The images below are all the images contained throughout my 16 page photo-zine.
Photo-zine creation:
For my first zine draft I wanted to present this image in a double page spread.
For the next 2 pages I wanted to display my images of La Hocq with a close-up and a long distance.
I wanted to slightly replicate the previous pages with close up images of rocks by using a similar layout of image placement.
For my next two pages I wanted to keep it basic and use a double page spread for a simple black and white image.
Next, I wanted to include the image of a crab I took because it changes up the theme slightly and include some wildlife next to a close up photo of sand
Then, I wanted to include some photos from La Societe archive of bones and human remains that were discovered on Green Island and around La Hocq
For my final 2 pages, I wanted to include 1 more double page spread of another basic, black and white rock image.
Final photo-zine:
Evaluation:
Overall, I am very happy with how my final zine turned out. I kept a similar theme throughout the pages of the zine with every picture inside being presented in black and white. The name of my zine, La Hocq, is named after the location that all the images included were taken. I really like the layout of the images with some pages having a white border to create more contrast. I used juxtaposition on some pages to change up the style and layout.
What is a 3d photo sculpture?
Three-dimensional art sculptures are works of art that present the dimensions of height, width, and depth. They occupy physical space and can be perceived from all sides and angles. Traditional types of three-dimensional media, like sculptures and reliefs, are some of the oldest examples of 3D artwork.
Moodboard
Artist reference: Robert Heinecken
Robert Heinecken was an American artist who referred to himself as a “paraphotographer” because he so often made photographic images without a camera. Heinecken was known for appropriating and re-processing images from magazines, product packaging or television. In the late 1960s, he also began cutting up popular magazines such as Time and Vogue and inserting sexual or pornographic images into them. He would place his collage-publications back on newsstands in Los Angeles to be sold to unsuspecting buyers. In the 1980s, he created several series on American news television that involved photographing images on the television or exposing the light of a television set directly to paper to create what he called “videograms.”
Examples of his work:
My 3d Photo Sculpture
To begin, I created a sculpture out of 4 pieces of foam board including the same photo of a rock in multiple different colours. I used knifes and glue to cut out and bring it all together. After seeing the final outcome I wasn’t very happy with it and thought it looked a bit washed so I decided to start a new sculpture.
I created my sculpture using foam board, images of rocks, glue and tape. I cut out 4 rectangles of foam board with all the same measurements and positioned them in a symmetrical way. I then stuck down my images of rocks on my 4 cut-outs of foam board. After the glue dried I experimented with how to put it all together. After multiple attempts at getting the best outcome I ended up with 2 right angled images on top of 2 other right angle images.
Overall, I am happy with the way my second sculpture turned out. I like the way the grey images of rocks contrast against the white foam board and the white stand and walls. When creating another sculpture I am going to follow the same technique of using black and white images on the white foam board. Also, I like the way the four images used on each square represents different parts of St Ouens and shows the different kind of rock formations .
How are archives a repository of knowledge?
In present time, physical archives aren’t as popular as previous years due to the creation of technology such as phones and computers. These phones make taking photographs very easy and accessible for all users. Due to this, photos have become less special and significant to modern day rather than 100 years ago when photographs were seen as treasure and important. The Société Jersiaise was founded in 1873 for the study of Jersey archaeology, history, natural history and the ancient language of Jèrriais. They have special events and the Lord Coutanche Library supports the work of the Société Jersiaise by collecting and preserving material relating to Jersey’s history. Their photo archive contains over 120,000 images ranging from the 1840s to recent day. In recent years, the Societe group has led out an excavation of human and mammoth remains at La Cotte De St Brelade which has helped the population understand and learn about the heritage of Jersey and the geographical history. As stated on their website, the Societe main objective to produce and facilitate research on the Island’s history, culture, language and environment; and to share that knowledge with the widest possible audience for the benefit of our island community. This benefits the islands heritage as it holds old documents of a nearly extinct language of Jerrias, meaning this history will not be forgotten. The Societe offer memberships to the community from £12 (if your a student) to £100 a year. By applying for the membership you get permission of access to all heritage sites, regular newsletters, and a 10% discount on books. A large and engaged membership has been crucial to the considerable successes of the Société Jersiaise over many years. Membership is open to all and by joining, it means you would be supporting many activities with your subscription. The archive holds images and documents from historic photographers. Early photographers such as William Collie, Charles Hugo, Thomas Sutton and Henry Mullins. Included as well are later nineteenth century photographers such as Clarence Ouless, Ernest Baudoux and Albert Smith. To follow in the 20th century the archive holds very value images from a rich point in history in Jersey. This being WWII; specifically, images from the German occupation and the liberation of the island.
The history of archives dates back to nearly the 7th century BC with the first one named the Library of Ashurbanipal. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC, including texts in various languages. The archive contains a poem from ancient Mesopotamia named The Epic of Gilgamesh. It is regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts.
Henry Mullins
Henry Mullins is one of the most influential establishers of f La Société Jersiaise who started working in London from 1840 and later moved to Jersey is 1848, where he set up a studio as the Royal Saloon. He worked at his studio for 26 years where he learnt his speciality which was cartes de visite and the photographic archive of La Société contains a massive collection of these. Their online archive contains 9600 images, but the majority of them are sets from up to 16 photographs at a time. After setting up his studio in the royal square he created an advert in 1852 to attract customers to have portraits taken.
By looking and analysing Mullins work you get a good understanding and idea of the different types of people throughout that time period. Mullins’ photographed many different kinds of people from soldiers to carpenters, maids, children and even people with extreme power. He also photographed Charles Bertram who was a magician from 1853-1907 and was known as ‘The Royal Conjurer’ because of his performances for the royalty. After his death his collection of over 20,000 negatives was acquired in 1883 by Clarence Philip Ouless and formed part of his collection which was given to La Société in 2006.
Conclusion
Overall, archives record and represent events that have happened throughout the history of the world, educating newer generations of how life was lived and the importance of their ancestors. By learning about archives will help inspire me to complete my archive as it teaches about the past without using words but rather through images. After learning about archives it means I have the knowledge of why they were used, how they were created, and aspects from them that can be imported into my zine project.
What is a photo-zine?
A photo zine is a self-published, often handmade collection of photographs laid out in a magazine style. It can include written text and illustrations as well as photos. They are designed to display and share photo stories. A photo zine can be a single, one-off publication.
A zine is usually a non – commercial, non professional publication, kind of like a magazine but with a twist. The main difference between a magazine and a zine is that zines are not out there to make a profit but, rather, to add other, often unheard voices into the mix.
Examples of created photo-zines:
Café Royal Books is a small independent publisher of photography photobooks or zines, and sometimes drawing, solely run by Craig Atkinson and based in Southport, England. Café Royal Books produces small-run publications predominantly documenting social, historical and architectural change, often in Britain, using both new work and photographs from archives. It has been operating since 2005 and by mid 2014 had published about 200 books and zines and they are held in major public collections
Birmingham 1960s photo-zine:
Photo-zine moodboard:
The pages in the photo-zine display the images side by side and create some sort of story. I am going to aim to create a photo-zine with a similar style as the Cafe Royal Books collection of zines that are described through black and white images displaying the history of Britain. I am most likely going to have all my images included in the photo-zine to be shown in black and white to try and follow the style of these older zines.