Disposable e-cigarettes are harmful for the local environment as incorrect disposal of these items can potentially release plastic, electronical and hazardous chemical waste into the environment. In particular, incorrect battery disposal can cause fire, health and safety risks at landfill sites due to these products being able to leak dangerous chemicals into the soil and water, killing off plants and wildlife. Most vapes cannot be recycled, making them a product of single use plastic, wasting materials and manufacturing process time. Furthermore, they also contain batteries that cannot be removed, therefore cannot be further recycled.

I was inspired by Mandy Barker for this project as she turns trash into artwork. I decided to use vapes as multiple people use them on a daily basis and they usually only last between two to three days, wasting peoples money as well as negatively impacting the environment. During my research, I discovered that the lithium batteries used take more than a hundred years to decompose as well as the hard plastic, leaving the earth in worse health.

For the Anthropocene project I have decided to focus on air pollution created by humans.

What I am going to photograph:

• cars
• smoke coming from chimneys
• Factory buildings
• smoking and vaping
• the natural environment to show what is is we are damaging

The type of images I want to create are going to be focused around the smoke and emissions coming from these sources.

Definition – how human activity has a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.

Mind map:

Mood board:

my process:

my edits:

Overall I like how my edits have turned out and I think this style is very intriguing for the viewer as the mirroring of the images draws your eyes into the centre then allowing you to look further out to the rest of the image which is full of detail and different tones.

For my idea, I am going to combine new topography with Anthropocene. On Sunday, I am planning to go around the island taking new topographic style photos of man-made structures and I will collect the rubbish around it. I am planning to go to St. Ouens bay, Town.

My Ideas are to take some far back photos of buildings but also some close-ups of things such as the metal showers at the beach and metal fences.

Following taking the photos, I am going to edit them in Lightroom and put them into monochrome. Next, I have 2 ideas of what I could do with the rubbish:

Idea 1: I could take photos of the rubbish I have collected and arrange it in the style of Mandy Barker and take photos of it.

The contrast of the vibrant rubbish to the monochrome new topographic photos could look great.

Idea 2: I could, mount the new topographic photography and below it, possibly on paper or drift wood or something I can arrange and put the rubbish below the photo to give the piece a 3D element.

Photoshoot Plan

Contact Sheet: Town

Personally, I am not sure these photos are right for my final piece exam. Although it did help me decide and organise my final piece to help me see what I was looking for.

Contact Sheet: El Tico

I really like how this photoshoot has turned out and it will be perfect for my Anthropocene edits.

Refining Ideas

I really like the ideas of doing a compilation of several images onto an A3 sheet. I will use the man made structures and rubbish and edit them. Then I will cut them into circles to make a few A3 sheets.

My edits on light room

My editing process

Example:

The final result

Comparison to Angie McMonigal

Evaluation and Critique

The lighting I used was natural as my photos were taken outside. I have used monochrome colours to really accentuate the contrast between the black and white. The images have a wide depth of field as most of the image is in focus and a fast shutter speed. The circular shape creates the idea of the idea of the damage humans have done and how the infinitive shape creates how long it would take to clear up and fix.

To conclude , I really like how my final edits have turned out. It gives the Anthropocene ambience which I was trying to do. The dull colours support this. I made sure to take my photos at around 3 o’clock when the sun started to go down and the dense clouds engulfed the sun, which symbolise burden and obstacle; the obstacle being climate change and littering.

Next time, I would like to use a variety of locations to take my images as a lot of these are very simple and more new topography style rather than Anthropocene. I would like to focus more on objects with interesting textures such as the surfboards and wheels rather than the buildings. I would photograph things such as ropes and buoys. Also I would have liked to have made a bigger image on A2 paper, however that is not currently available.

Virtual Gallery

Gif

This is a gif I made on ezgif.

This is was my inspiration

This is my original image from my Harve Des Pas photoshoot.

then I doubled the image and flipped it so it was on the opposing side.

Lastly I repeated the same steps to mirror the image.

I then duplicated the layer and created more overall layers to create it on a larger scale.

I also took about 60 photos for this photoshoot, however quite a few of my images have come out blurry which therefore means ill have to experiment in Lightroom while also having to go out and take more new images.

This image displays land erosion really well however I find its too blurry, unless I can create something out of it I will have to go and retake these pictures.

About Stephanie Jung

Stephanie Jung is a freelance photographer based in Berlin, Germany. In 2010 she finished her studies in Visual Communications, where she discovered her passion for experimental photography. 

She loves to travel all over the world, especially to big cities, to capture the vibrant and hectic mood of a place. But her work is not just about citylife, it’s about time and caducity, about capturing special moments getting lost in time. Her extraordinary shots show cities that depict reality but nonetheless lead to a different, surreal dimension apart from our real world.

With her camera, she does no more than 4 exposures. She believes anything more than that is hard to control and the pictures’ structure vanishes. Instead, she reworks the images, adding elements and editing them the way she likes.

“It’s about time and caducity”

– Stephanie Jung

Image Analysis

This was one of the photos that Jung took while in New York, portraying a busy, crowded area. Jung’s fascinating technique causes her multiple-exposure photographs to have many different layers- illustrating reality as we normally see it but nevertheless portraying many bizarre and unearthly dimensions within her pictures. This entrancing piece is a perfect example of her unique approach- her use of multiple exposures combined together creating a ghostly appearance. The range of different opacities provokes a cluttered effect to emerge throughout the image, creating an effective look and engaging the audience more. The high saturation of the image makes the colours stand out, the oranges and reds overtaking and causing the picture to be mostly made up from warm tones. There is a sense of repetition in this piece, some areas (such as billboards) being repeated in the image numerous times, producing an overlapping effect that brings depth into the image, causing there to be a 3D effect and adding an interesting look to it. Furthermore, the layered rectangular billboards create a pattern of blocky shapes within the photo, adding a harsher and sharper look to the photo. This photograph captures the true complexity of this cityscape, Jung accentuating these qualities with her editing later on, layering different photos together. This image seems to be consistently shifting, causing the audience to notice new things each time they look at the image. This piece is an perfect balance between time and timelessness, the photo seeming everlastingly alive. The people going about their day adds another sense of chaos to the image. The overall feeling of chaos seems to be quite disruptive and exaggerated however, when looking more at the picture, proves to be a beautifully abstract way of reducing the complexity of the landscape. This image is a perfect example of photographs being able to capture more than a single moment in time, as he piece clearly has a much longer timeline.

I took about 70 pictures for this photoshoot, I used a variation of angles to photograph electric towers to make something which can be seen as boring look more interesting. I aim to edit and experiment with these images.