Robert Clayton

Robert Clayton is known for his work in urban photography, particularly in neighbourhoods and estates.

Intentional or not, it appears that he wants to show the dullness and depressing neighbourhoods, full or lacking in crowdedness. Some of these feel as if they were taken in a deserted and abandoned area which gives quite a chilling feeling. Here are some of his photos:

Analysis

You can see here, a wide view angled landscape photo showing some apartment buildings standing tall along with other buildings in the fore and background in a very flat grass area, the buildings indicate human life, but the environment and natural life is scarse, this could be indicating that the way humans live is not supposed to be mixed in with the way animals live.

Another thing is some of the buildings obstructing the sun, casting a long shadow across the flat land. This may be representing the intrusion of man made structures being built in our world, we’re not supposed to live the way we do and we definitely shouldn’t be shunning nature out as we do so.

I can go to places like La Collette, Le Marias, Samarès, Le Quennevais Le Squez and Grouville Arsenal to take pictures like these.

Stephanie Jung

Stephanie Jung is another photographer who is also involved with urban like photography. She takes lots of pictures of mostly buildings and cities in, what seems to be, a sort of burst technique and puts them together to create a distorted effect. I think these photos are very interesting as I’m not sure what the meaning is behind them.

Here are some samples:

Analysis

Jung’s work captures the everyday life in the city. She takes these photos at the right time of day to capture different moods. This one for instance has a very gloomy look, especially with the dark green appearance. It creates a sort of sad and lonely environment. And it’s distorted to show perhaps everything that is going on at the same time the photo was took, there is lots of different activity the people are doing in this city whether that be working, talking, eating or anything else that could be potentially happening. Because of this, I think these photos overall are made to show us that were are overpopulating the planet, it will continue to happen and increase and we can’t do anything about it. As of now, there are just over 8 Billion people on planet earth. Which will not mean any good for the environment as now there are more people taking up more space and causing more pollution etc. Humans only make the world worse.

Some places I have in mind to take pictures at are The Waterfront, Fort Regent, Car Parks, The Big Chimney, Harbours and High Rises.

I will try other things during my photoshoot however, like trash washed up on the beach, litter scattered around places, buildings and places that are overgrown with leaves, vines, trees etc.

Here are some extra ideas: