Photoshoot Plan

The typology that I have chosen to photograph is bunkers from the Nazi Occupation of Jersey. I plan to walk the bays of St Ouen and St Aubin taking photos of the fortifications created by the Nazis as I go along. I have chosen to do this on Thursday 29th December. the weather is forecast to be overcast with short spells of rain, therefore I believe that this will be the perfect conditions to photograph this huge aspect of history. I plan to walk the length of St Ouen’s bay starting at L’Etacq and finishing at La Pulente. Inspired by the images taken by Bernd and Hilla Becher, I wish to take the images in monochrome, imitating the style shown in their images.

Typology Experiment Outcome

Project Analysis

When taking these images, I imitated the techniques used by Bernd and Hiller Becher. Each image was taken in monochrome with a dead-pan approach with an overcast background in an attempt to keep all images as similar as possible. When it came to editing the images, I changed as little as possible (mainly adapting the exposure and contrast elements of the images). As they did not have any modern editing software, the Becher’s would have had to make do with the images that they had captured. Therefore, I did very little editing with the images I had taken and mainly used the bracketing technique to ensure I had at least one correctly exposed image. The monochrome palette shown also allows me to use inspiration from Ansel Adams and the New Topographics by using their zonal systems to ensure that my images had a dynamic range of light and shade. This is more prominent in my first, fifth and sixth images and could probably have been better utilised within the rest.